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I am more familiar with the situation in Estonia, because its representatives visited the Parliament recently and told us about their digital public services agenda.
They know that the situation is having an impact on the community, because when people want to visit their relatives in a care home they have to go to the mainland.
There can be difficulties between neighbours and, unusually, we find that sometimes we have to have more than one site visit, because it is not possible to have a visit where everyone is willing to be in the same garden at the same time.
For example, if a subject who lives among a wider family goes to visit their mother and father, it would be deemed collateral intrusion if I gained information about the mother and father, because they are not the subject of the application.
China (Visit) 6. To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment the Minister for Culture and External Affairs has made of the Scottish Government’s recent visit to China.
I do not have much to add to what Margaret Mitchell said—she has covered all the bases—but I will raise some specific issues.It must be borne in mind that it is only comparatively recently that society has started to discuss openly the fact that child abuse happens within and outwith families and the huge psychological effect that it has on the victims and ...
I do not propose to go into any detail about it today, except to say that I understand that there was an error on the part of the Scottish Parliament and that, whatever the legal niceties and complexities, responsibility for that is being recognised by the Scottish Government, although it is for the Scottish Government to say that.