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That would allow us to take account of Gordon Jackson's point. Targets? That is very new Labour. I will respond to three or four of the points that have been raised.
There would be merit in our coming up with a similar balanced scorecard that the proposers of new legislation could use to address certain points that we think are important.
When we discussed the budget process at the away day, we took the broad view that we might want to have a familiarisation exercise at this stage because, as a new committee, we need to familiarise ourselves with the sources of education funding and how they fit together.
We have not yet had a summary of the expected outputs from the new spending proposals. I hope that those will be available as we go through the process for the coming financial year.I refer to paper FI/02/4/2, which gives guidance from Arthur Midwinter on the kinds of questions that should be asked.
We are meant to be actively seeking new industries in Scotland. Point 4 of the paper says that we could consider a draft stage 1 report at our meeting on 18 December.
Our view is that there is a potential disadvantage to litigants who under the new orders, if they are passed, would have access to the simpler, more straightforward, procedures—including timetable procedures—of summary court procedure.
Although the powers have been superseded by the new section 32, the orders are still in place; section 67 of the Utilities Act 2000 makes provision for savings orders to be made in respect of them.
Until we have an overview of how active the groups are, it is hard to judge whether the new applications are needed or whether they can be accommodated in the existing groups.