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The age profile of our farming communities is a worry. However, I hope that the new tenancy arrangements will make it easier for new entrants to get into farming.
Companies embark on research and development work because they need to innovate to enter new markets. To develop new products, they need to undertake research and development work.
The Deputy First Minister explained during the stage 1 debate that that sort of matter could be dealt with in the management statement that will be prepared when the new public body is set put. That statement will be published.Government guidelines covering the setting up of new public bodies make it clear that a management statement is required for all new public bodies.
We have also drawn on the knowledge and experience of other countries that are operating progressive freedom of information legislation. I had the opportunity to visit Ireland last summer and to visitNew Zealand over Christmas.
I cannot see one advantage to women from the new law that the UK Parliament created instead of protecting women.If you make a law, you are going to put people in jail.
The legacy paper can be used as a kind of briefing on the work that has been done, to inform new members and to bring members who have been members of the Parliament but who are new to the committee up to date with what has been happening.
I welcome the general support for the committee's recommendations. Having met Karen Carlton, the new commissioner, I am confident that she is a suitably independent and feisty woman to carry out the job that she has been given.
The committee could also ask for an indication of whether the RCOG is reviewing and publishing new guidelines in the light of any new research evidence, as it suggested it would do within two years of the guidelines being published.