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We put in a lot of effort, not only to monitor the types of people who lodge petitions but to get out of Edinburgh and visit communities throughout Scotland, as we are doing today.
I hope that members will be relatively gentle with me, because the committee is engaged in on-going business and, as new members, it will take Tom McCabe and me some time to get up to speed with what the committee has been doing.It was agreed at a previous meeting that we would take item 3 in private.
Are those proposals the severe hardship test and the new financial eligibility criteria? I want to get a handle on the specifics of how you want to move forward.
This winter, we allocated £23.5 million to local authority programmes to get under-16s off the streets and to turn around their behaviour before they become criminal adults.
However, we believe that that organisation's role is to play a significant role in developing the Scottish tourism market to ensure that all businesses within the Scottish tourism sector get maximum opportunity through the development of the strategy that we have put forward through visitscotland.com.
This year, that money will fund the recruitment of 1,000 more nurses, almost 300 more doctors and a hospital building programme of eight new hospitals. We will double the number of one-stop clinics to ensure that we get much speedier response times.
If we want to influence the decision-making process, as mentioned on page 4 of the briefing paper, we must get into it as early as possible. The documents that we shall get will not necessarily achieve that.