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That was just an aside. I want to ask about the new information disclosure scheme. I understand that it is a new departure and that, inevitably, any estimate of the costs and fees must involve an element of assumption.
That proposal came from the Procedures Committee report on the issue.Proposed new schedule 1 would also do away with the requirement that the new body must have a chief executive.
It was the committee's aim, in going to Aberdeen and Perth, to meet in areas that parliamentary committees had not hitherto visited. That was why we considered places other than Dumfries.
In considering the proposal for a protection from abuse bill, the committee should be mindful that it would create a new remedy and therefore new candidates for legal aid.