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Accordingly, any organisation, including youth organisations with adult volunteers, is free to approach the Scottish Executive or their local volunteer centre to explore how best to take forward the recruitment, training and retention of volunteers.
If the problem of kerb-crawlers was attended to, the prostitutes would have no clients. That would be the best solution. In some countries, notably in Sweden, kerb-crawlers receive punitive fines.
We will certainly encourage projects such as that throughout Scotland. Peter Peacock and I have visited several of them. We are not always good at sharing best practice in Scotland, as I said at question time today, and there is a lot more that we can do.
I want to undertake an examination of best value in local government and of the efforts that have been made to introduce best value into central Government.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will make representations to Her Majesty's Government requesting that measures be taken to deter shopkeepers from selling extra-strong cider at cheap prices specifically in order to attract young people and the poorest adults, given the health and public order implications which such practices may have.