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Eddie Frizzell has been the head of the Scottish Executive’s Enterprise, Transport and Lifelong Learning Department, the chief executive of the Scottish Prison Service and the director of Locate in Scotland. He is currently visiting professor in public service management at Queen Margaret University.
If the democratic element of controlling or monitoring that regulator disappears, you cede the ground to narrower interest groups. One only has to visit Brussels to see the proliferation of lobbyists surrounding the European Parliament.
If at that stage they wish to continue, the programme ramps up and someone from travelsmart who is based locally visits them to chat about active travel plans and issues such as bike maintenance.
However, if you were to target information campaigns at those communities before the committee visits them, you may get a better response across the board.Another possibility would be to have public information co-ordinators target particularly underserved communities.
Thank you for your evidence, which has been very helpful to our inquiry. We look forward to visiting EMEC in a couple of weeks and the CCS Schwarze Pumpe plant in Germany at the end of April.
Dr Ian McKee and I took evidence from active schools co-ordinators from throughout Scotland at sportscotland. I did not visit the University of Stirling with the committee, but I know that the university carried out research with Stirling Council that involved asking children in one school who had encouraged them to join a sports club.
There was no beer and sandwiches, but we got a nice choccy biscuit in St Andrew's house, so it was not that bad. Believe me, I have visited employers who have not even offered me a choccy biscuit—in fact, not even a cup of coffee.
In your response to Mary Mulligan, you touched on the issue that I want to raise. A few weeks ago, I visited Skillset, where people were very excited because they were about to publish the sector skills agreement.
The matter is nothing to do with English or UK legislation; it is to do with Scottish legislation and things that happened in Scotland. Anybody who visits St Andrews and walks round some of the historic sights will find out what used to happen to women there.