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The changes are all highlighted in the new guidance. If you have concerns about any of the new aspects, could you let the clerks know by tomorrow so that we have time to address them before the guidance goes for publication?
It is important to acknowledge the critical significance for any new organisation of being able to establish itself, to settle in and to put in place structures that will last.
However, it is slightly harder to see how the structure that Murdo Fraser suggests would feed into the committee's business growth inquiry unless we started an entirely new chapter, which might take us in a completely new direction.
Finally, will he advise whether he has ruled out new build in Peebles? I do not mean to be personal, Presiding Officer, but I am sorry that Sir David Steel is not here.
Any activities of the council that go beyond the consumer protection reservation in the Scotland Act 1998 will be devolved. It is important that the new council has those powers to enable it to exercise its functions in that area of consumer activity.