Part of the debate – in the Scottish Parliament at 9:30 am on 6 March 2003.
I will take Mr Lyon's intervention first.
The minister's white paper takes centralisation to new lengths by taking power away from hospitals and giving it back to health boards. He is going in exactly the opposite direction from Alan Milburn down south, who is taking the Conservative medicine. As a result of the Executive's approach, Scottish patients will be the losers once again.