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In considering whether supporting this Bill would be in Scotland’s best interests the following conclusions have been reached:
The provisions within this Bill must be brought forward for Scotland or, as a separate jurisdiction, Scotland would be placed in a prejudicial position and Scottish citizens and businesses could be negatively impacted: in particul...
Amendment 24, by agreement, withdrawn. Amendments 25 and 26 not moved. Amendment 51, in the name of Maureen Macmillan, is grouped with amendments 52, 1, 53, 2, 3, 27, 4, 54, 81, 82, 13 to 15, 46 and 16.
That would be a tremendous leap forward from the campaign's point of view.Convener, I am happy to be stopped at any point and for members to jump in with questions.
If they are, I am sure you will put me right. No, that is a valid point. I am not sure that the analogy with the individual learning accounts is necessarily the best, but you are right that our response was in effect to proceed with a Scotland-wide system of individual learning accounts.
We hope that that will feed into good-practice guidance on preventing homelessness, which we will be working on with the awareness-raising and best-practice sub-group of the homelessness monitoring group as we try to take forward what seem to be the best methods.
What part will mediation play in the reduced periods of time? I take your point that mediation should be a positive starting point as opposed to a last resort.
How can we ensure that, while there is no abuse of the system, carers' rights are protected when the people for whom they care die? It is not always easy to predict when somebody is going to die or move into care, so it would be quite difficult to abuse the system deliberately.