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However, we cannot rest on our laurels, which is why the committee has consistently tried to improve practices and procedures and has been quick to embrace new technology and techniques, not least of which is the e-petitions system.
If we are trying to build a new Scotland, the attitude that there should be no compensation for some because we did not get it is not an attitude on which we can base a new democracy or a new nation.This has been a bad afternoon for the Parliament.
That is why the work of the Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency will be put on a statutory footing and will have a new structure and new powers to recruit police officers and support staff directly.
Does the committee agree that we should consider in private at a future meeting our approach to fact-finding visits as part of our inquiry into business growth?
I shall deal with those points in a minute.Labour at Westminster has delivered more fundamental political and constitutional change in the past four years than we have seen in the past 200 years. Labour has delivered: a new Parliament for Scotland with PR; a new National Assembly for Wales with PR; a new Northern Ireland Assembly with PR; and a new London Assembly with PR.
I also welcome the latest Office of Fair Trading inquiry into supermarkets.As the minister said, it is almost 10 years to the day since BSE struck in 1996.