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There was one such scheme at the Royal Victoria hospital in my constituency, which was visited by the minister and me on new year's eve—so Dorothy is not alone in roaming around at new year.
We have said that costs and longer procedures are both concerns. Trying to get all creditors to agree or an agency to get everybody together will undoubtedly extend the length of procedures.
That is indicative of the kind of people who come along. There are other people who may visit two or three personal enterprise shows and then make a decision to start a business in two or three years' time.We are also aware of many others, and we get statistics on new business...
Would you consider extending that period, perhaps to 26 or 28 hours, to allow slightly greater flexibility and to enable efficient management of the new system?
We completed the remaining third and have done just under 10 visits under the new system.I accept that statistical sampling helps to reduce the need for random visits, but there is still benefit to be gained from random visits.