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In "Scotland's transport future", we set out our proposals. There will be a new transport agency for Scotland and a network of new regional transport partnerships.
Some of us campaigned on that issue, and the Scottish people expect the committees to visit them where reasonable. The case for that is strong, and there is consensus across the parties on it.
—Official Report, Education Committee, 26 May 2004; c 1469-70. At that point, the minister showed his willingness to learn from the pilot scheme and to legislate if that turned out to be necessary.
Some 90 per cent of the bill aims to tighten the rules to cover new forms of gambling.The bill will also provide new protections for children and vulnerable persons, which are important in the context of social responsibility.
To do so might well involve the creation of 14 or so new non-departmental public bodies, whose existence would be superseded by whatever new management structure emerged in due course.