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The committee's—or the Parliament's—legal powers to require witnesses or documents come under sections 23 to 26 of the Scotland Act 1998. The later sections are supplementary.
In certain circumstances, in sensitive cases, even a perception of a conflict of interests can be damaging, and I think that it would have been better to protect the new Lord Advocate from that from the outset.
We already have all the information and all the asbestos cases are identified. Whenever we commence a new action, it is detailed as an asbestos case on the front of the writ, so any new actions are immediately entered into the database.
The committee is coming to Aberdeen on 26 February for the whole day. It is worth your having a look at that report, because I think that you would be surprised by some of the comments in it.
Our foyer service—I know that the committee will take evidence later from the Foyer Federation—was added in 1995 and has integrated well into our supported accommodation work and with developments such as the new deal and the new futures objectives.
I am short on time.I would also like to ask the minister whether the special finance unit that he intends to set up will be properly resourced, with new people and new money to get it up and running.