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That is up £4 million—or about eight Ryder cup visits—from last year, and is more than 160,000 extra agency and bank nursing hours this year alone, compared with last year.
Can you expand on that and on what your thinking is on use of that extra 5 per cent? Are you able to say that we will definitely be able to employ an extra 5 per cent for coupled payments?
Of course there are challenges, but 24,000 first doses have been injected, we have run extra clinics and worked extra shifts and we are now doing back shifts and weekends.
I have some time in hand and can allow extra time for interventions. 15:24 I am pleased to speak in this important Scottish Government debate on achieving a fairer Scotland.
It is pretty clear that neither DLA nor PIP could be considered to be an extra-costs benefit, so representing it as an extra-costs benefit is misleading for the people who have extra costs.
We have heard that the cost has been estimated at up to £15 million per annum extra. How would that impact on the need to get the product to market in a timely fashion?