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The Law Society's evidence says that it supports a systematic approach to the review of new legislation. It would like a statutory requirement for new legislation to be reviewed after, say, five years.
You mentioned the figure 3,000 in your introduction, but I did not pick up what that was. The figure is from the latest school census, with which there was some difficulty.
Under the pre-1996 arrangement of regional authorities there was, in my view, more ownership of fire boards than under the new arrangement, in which we have 32 fire authorities compared with the previous eight under the regional councils.