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You assured us that work was being done to recruit new markers. During our visits to Dalkeith and Glasgow, we were given some indication of the increase in the number of markers.
I have a second question on the wider area of government, e-government, modernising government and the general ethos of the Scottish Executive. When I visited America in the autumn, I was struck by the fact that people either got the e-revolution or did not.
That would probably be a better way of proceeding than having a formal requirement to consult committees on a large number of statutory instruments, some of which would not be worth showing on the committees' radar screens. I agree with that. Ken Macintosh's other point is important.
You seem to suggest that that is currently slightly off the radar screen. Have you any advice for the committee about how that could be introduced and addressed?
First, it appeared to claim that Miralles and Dewar had signed release forms in respect of their interviews being screened only in the final, edited programme.
What happens in southern Scotland is relevant to people in Carlisle, even though I am sure that John Swinney's visit to Dalbeattie was not the high point of their evening.
The other 58 per cent of the electorate, who are not tenants or homeowners, do not pay council tax and are not interested in pensioners, who are being squeezed—or in disabled people, who are finding it difficult.