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The suggestion is that the clerks will use the forthcoming timetable of meetings to identify the sites on the route that we want to visit. The proposal is for an all-day site visit on Tuesday 7 June.
There is clearly still a major problem with transparency. The Scottish Executive cannot get away with sending out all sorts of press releases and new announcements willy-nilly and making itself look good, while being unable to show where the money is coming from.
I hope that the committee will agree that we should write to the Procedures Committee and get that assurance. If we get it, I will certainly be happy to allow the Procedures Committee to deal with this, because it is, after all, a procedural matter.
We need to increase the number of advisers to get people into the DAS. It is a virtuous circle—if we increase the number of advisers, we should increase the number of people who access the DAS.Citizens Advice Scotland's submission seems to mix up two things.
If we are going to have successful companies in rural Scotland that can get their goods to the markets, they need to use decent, modern road haulage systems in order to access the other forms of public transport.
No, I do not think that you can say that. The impression that I get, from reading the documents, listening to evidence and reading news reports, is that everything hinges around that man.