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The clerks have done a sterling job in getting all the amendments together. However, I do not want to leave out paragraph 35 but insert a new paragraph.
That status was removed from us as long ago as 1982, as the Presiding Officer will remember, but it is now, thankfully, available again.I shall concentrate on the new ways strand, or theme, of getting people to their full potential.
What is the significance of that factor? I was unable to get any hard evidence. I visited Peterhead prison and spoke to five prisoners and three union committee members.
I could get into a wider argument about the fact that drivers generally pay far too much in tax anyway and that they should get some advantage from a fines system.
We must be careful that we do not concentrate too much on legislation and lose any of the post-enactment scrutiny, which sometimes gets lost because of the strain of other work that is placed on a committee.
Let us not talk only about the core revenue local government settlement; let us talk about all the taxpayers' money that heads in that direction—a not inconsiderable sum of money. I note that I did not get an answer about what proportion of the increase in the local government settlement covers new burdens.