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In addition, capital limits have been increased for both advice and assistance and civil legal aid, and new provisions have been established to speed up the process of getting urgent legal aid.
I sympathise with the point that Bill Aitken has made. We are getting just one side of the story. This is not a new situation, as I remember that 15 or 20 years ago there was a problem with getting replacements for wardens—it is not always easy to fill the posts.
The antepenultimate syllable— The antepenultimate syllable is where the stress should come as a rule, but it is a rule to which there are many exceptions and which I get wrong on many occasions. We think that we might not ask the Executive about that.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
25 August 2004
It is easy for, and a bit patronising of, politicians to say, "Do not underestimate the public. They will get it right." The reality is that a very complicated new form of voting is being introduced.