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I wish to raise the issue of access for disabled people in the present and the new parliamentary settings. I have raised this matter in the chamber twice, as there are a number of concerns about the facilities for disabled people at present and in the new building.
You say that you have modelled the new bill on that, but the English power to make changes to ensure compatibility with the ECHR is in section 10 of the Human Rights Act 1998.
I seem to remember that a former Tory Prime Minister said:"Advisers advise and Ministers decide"—Official Report, House of Commons, 26 October 1989; Vol 158, c 1044..I hold to that principle fairly strongly.
Page 5 of your draft network operating plan lists a lot of targets as new. How did you come up with three for the number of new international business transport links, for example?
I am sure we will hear from other members in the debate.The amendments in Christine Grahame's name are the latest in a series on the subject, each of which has been fully debated.
I hope that members enjoy tomorrow's debate, when we will conclude many years of work—that might not be the case for all committee members, but it certainly is for some of the staff and others—on producing a new members' interests order as part of the Interests of Members of the Scottish Parliament Bill.