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Of these visits, 72 were made under the Members Support Allowance within the UK or to Brussels/Strasbourg, 46 under the auspices of External Liaison Unit and 42 as committee visits.
The whole committee—with the exception of the new members—has been involved in the issue and I would not want to exclude those who have made some contribution.
If anything or anybody is being brought into disrepute, it is new Labour. When the Tories were in power, it was new Labour that led the fight against privatisation.
Giving power to landlords who can be trusted and who have a continuing responsibility for a household once people have been moved—those people do not disappear but will go to live somewhere else—would be in the community's best interests and often in that household's best interests as well.
Our reading of the paperwork that we have received is that we are talking about best value. Our contention would be that best value need not always be related solely to financial best value, in terms of a bottom line.
Many of the issues about stewardship, probity and best value from the use of public money that will emerge from the future auditing of local government will centre not on section 83 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, as they have in the past, but on behaviour and conduct.