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I assume that what you are saying is that the figure appears reasonable if only 50 new cases are brought a year. Based on my constituency experience, I would have thought that there would be more than 50 cases a year.
In considering the proposal for a protection from abuse bill, the committee should be mindful that it would create a new remedy and therefore new candidates for legal aid.
If you wait six weeks, you will be into the new financial year. If John Spencely's report drifts—and I think that it will have to—you will have to wait until the new Auditor General takes up his post on 1 April.
Petitions Item 2 is the consideration of petitions. Members will see that we have one new petition, PE609, which is highlighted in bold on the committee papers.
Designation of Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (Scotland) Regulations 2002 (SSI 2002/276)New Water and Sewerage Authorities Dissolution (Scotland) Order 2002(SSI 2002/277) No points arise on these instruments.
Interests Item 1 is to ask Adam Ingram, a new member of the committee, to declare any interests, as this is the first public meeting of the committee that he has attended.
Scottish ParliamentHealth and Community Care CommitteeWednesday 12 January 2000(Morning) The Convener opened the meeting at 10:03 Good morning, everybody, and a very happy new year to all members and to everyone in the public gallery.