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Appeals from decisions of Sheriffs Principal are also dealt with by the Inner House.
There are exceptional circumstances where the Inner House may hear a case at first instance.
As Kenny rightly pointed out, Canada and the United States have benefited from sadnesses in our own land.As Kenny said, we have known refugees in Britain for a very long time. One thinks of La Rochelle and the invasion of Louis XIII that led to the Huguenot influx to this country.
One of the problems in that area in the SQA is the skills of those who are managing particular sections or delivering on particular matters. When we visited the SQA last week, we discussed with you the fact that there had been comparatively little investment in staff training.
I agree that to compare Scottish Executive departments with departments south of the border is not necessarily to compare like with like, but some measure of international or cross-UK comparison is surely helpful.
MSPs do not want to be misled, and a consultation paper, once we have approved it, would be the way forward. My problem with comparative work is that, often, apples are not compared with apples, but with pears.
Mr Brown said that what he called the subtle power of direction could be used for reasons of simple comparability—to compare different regions across Scotland—but surely that is different.