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If the area officer has a problem, as I do with what is happening in the Borders, we make frequent visits. I have been to the Borders at least once a fortnight to visit schools and meet officials.
The deaf are just as interested in politics, current affairs and literature as any hearing people. When I was MP for Hamilton, I visited the deaf school, and the children then paid a visit to the House of Commons.
The history of the situation is that predominantly school buses tend to be used off-peak to enhance local bus services, whereas the commercial fleet is quite new and modern. Is it the case that you renew your commercial fleet, and every so often you bump vehicles from it down to the non-commercial fleet so that you can buynew ones?
Amendment 88 inserts into the bill a new section after section 31; the new section itself inserts proposed new section 298A into the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995.
When there is a limited amount for investment and somebody is screaming for new machines, new equipment or a new production line, it is a huge challenge to use that money for training.
The legacy paper can be used as a kind of briefing on the work that has been done, to inform new members and to bring members who have been members of the Parliament but who are new to the committee up to date with what has been happening.
Will we get more resources into the system through the new legislation, or is the new legislation likely to lead to a much greater demand for resources?