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On balance, therefore, we decided that the best way ahead would be to offer the new scheme—payment of the graduate endowment and access to the new bursaries of up to £2,000 a year and the extra student loan of £500 a year for students from the poorest families—to new students ...
I want to deal with other issues to which you have given thought. The bill proposes a new Scottish legal complaints commission—out goes the ombudsman and in comes something new.
However, it has been suggested that there could be a circuit of such courts. That would allow people to visit a number of places regularly and to build up knowledge of, and a relationship with, an area.
However, the current set-up has always had a problem—and the new set-up replicates it—when capital investment is required to build developments such as new TICs or the new hubs that were spoken about in earlier evidence.
I hope that all members support that measure.Of course, such new, practical legislative measures are welcome, but new laws alone do not offer a complete solution.
If we are heavily involved in an investigation by the time of the December visit, that investigation may also throw up one or two issues that we would like to discuss with the visitors.
I ask that because during Scottish tourism week we were encouraged to visit places. I visited a local hotel that depends quite heavily on the internet—it does a lot of business through the internet.