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Scottish ParliamentTransport and the Environment CommitteeWednesday 8 January 2003(Morning) The Convener opened the meeting at 09:39 I welcome everyone to the first meeting of the Transport and the Environment Committee in 2003 and wish you all a happy new year. I hope that it is a successful year—for most of us, anyway.I have received no apologies for abs...
Paragraph 12.1 of your submission suggests that you will have a new burden of £182,000. Will your council be able to cope with some of that new burden, or would the Government have to provide new resources to take care of it?
It is simply not true that the hands of judges are being tied. In fact, the new system not only improves the authority of the judge in the court, but ensures that the judge's sentence is properly carried out.
She could also have referred to the rising trend in teacher numbers—additional teachers can help in this issue—the rising trend in attainment or new figures that show that crime levels are dropping.
That is pretty strong stuff.The other issue relates to the previous article 7, which is the new article 6. Paragraph 45 of the legal brief analyses the matter, and paragraph 46 states:"the policy purpose of article 6 at least"—that is, the new article—"could be achieved by an order under section 104 of the Scotland A...
In the letter, he made it clear that new powers were needed to take account of any future development in, and regulation of, elective general surgery, piercing or tattooing and the future revision of the WHO's definition of FGM.
I think that, as has been suggested, we should reply to Patricia Ferguson, welcoming the fact that an apology has been made and that new procedures are to be put in place.