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There are three reasons. First, compared with solicitors, there are relatively few advocates: there are 8,500 solicitors in Scotland and 400 advocates.
Although McIntosh recommended that we move to PR, at the end of the day we should still compare it to the existing system. Do you want someone else to come along and give the other side of the story?
As members can imagine, it did not take the pupils long to learn "un gâteau", "une glace", "des bonbons" and "de la limonade"—although not the French for "healthy eating initiative".
The public are entitled to pick up the draft budget and compare department with department—not just the performance of one department during the year compared with its previous year's performance, although that is important.
It is a great leap to compare the argument for incorporating Ramsar sites into the bill with the proper position that was adopted in relation to human rights.
If another member of the committee is interested in examining transport issues on a comparative basis, they should get in touch with me, and we will try to develop some of those issues and report back to the committee in due course.