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I have looked carefully at the campaign to top up child benefit, as has Angela Constance, and I respect many of the organisations that are making the case for that.
The paragraph headed “Interviews” at the top of page 2 sets out the commissioner’s responsibilities in relation to what information should be provided to a person before being interviewed for the first time; the rights of a person being interviewed to have a third party present and to have their views conveyed through an interpreter; considerations about a ...
We could ask the Law Commission to look at small fixes in the law—say, in leasehold law or family law—but we might just get a scattergun approach, which would be difficult to consult on and difficult to get public buy-in to, and which would be technocratic in various ways.
Given the climate issue, we now focus much more on local audiences and audiences from across Scotland, who make up the majority of our ticket-buying public—our mantra is, “One more show, not two more feet.”
Does that present any risk at all? For example, when we look at the top rate, we see that less than 1 per cent—0.8 per cent—of Scottish taxpayers paid 17.8 per cent of all tax.