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In the latter case, a reporter and small groups making visits are helpful. However, when a committee is acting in a judicial capacity and a visit takes place, all committee members should participate.
Because there is a general perception that politicians are not particularly friendly towards travellers, resentment might be felt towards us were we to visit a site as a group. The committee would have to overcome those difficulties if it felt that such a visit would assist it in its consideration of the issues.
I am aware of the work of the Lochaber centre and hope to visit it. In Strathpeffer last week, I was struck by the keenness of people in rural communities to take advantage of the web after having had to deal with the difficulties of peripherality in the past.
Indeed, my constituency, Argyll and Bute, is seeing a 15.9 per cent increase in its budget over the next three years. That is compared with 5 per cent in the previous three years.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many schoolchildren have visited Historic Scotland properties through free school visits in each of the last three years.