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The debate at the time would have been to do with whether the differences would have warranted there being a stand-alone bill compared to other bits of legislation that we were considering.
The original projections overestimated the number of obligated businesses in 2000 by 65 per cent—estimates were for 19,000 compared with an actual figure of 11,500.
Convener, you might have answered my point when you said that some comparative research is being undertaken, but I remember that we discussed our remit for this investigation and it says that we are to"compare the performance of Scotland with other constitutional regions within the EU and comparable Member States".That comparative dimension is not clear in respect of some of the people to whom we are writing.
To see its PowerPoint presentations and pretty picture, you would think that we were going to walk into a new Shangri-la in Craigmillar. However, when you get the PARC representatives round the table and say, "Right, what does that mean for this family?