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I wish to address the membership of the new committee. On the list are a local authority chief executive— Let us have a question straight away, please.
For two months now, the Parliament has heard repeated assurances from the First Minister about his desire for a protocol with the Home Office to govern the operation of enforcement home visits, which are otherwise known as dawn raids.
On evidence, we should try to probe the extent to which the new FEDS has driven the new allocations over the summer, given that those allocations will set the budget for the next three years.
That has meant combining existing defined and non-defined activities into new functions. Unfortunately, under the current accounting regime, we are required to account for them separately.
Once questions come up, if you want to say something, please feel free to do so.Page 2 of the first paper concerns the scope of a new ethical framework. The committee has stated quite clearly that MSPs should be included in the same kind of rules and regulations as others.
Our question was how to use the opportunity of a new Scottish Parliament and Executive to reorganise those functions in the service of a joined-up, holistic approach to policy making.
Although those people need significant monitoring, we cannot put a price on the lives of our children. Treatment programmes and new initiatives have to be considered.