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If members have no strong views one way or the other, are we agreed that we should have the enterprise agencies back—particularly, as Karen Gillon said, to compare their previous evidence with what they are now saying—Historic Scotland and one of the national collections?
I do not think that there is anything in the documents before us that would cover that eventuality.My recollection is that, for extradition, you need a comparable crime in both jurisdictions. That is the point that I am making.
Why does the First Minister prefer to keep parents and teachers in the dark, rather than providing them will all the information—including comparative information—that is necessary for them to be able to make informed judgments?
Does he also share my concern that Stobhill was selected because the capital receipts that would have come from its sale would have been minimal compared to other sites at the time? That certainly would be unacceptable if that was what had happened.
As I said to Mr Sheridan, common practice in Scotland, which is reflected in guidance, is that pension schemes in the private sector should be broadly comparable with those in the public sector.
The fact that we have improved our comparative performance does not take away from the fact that we still do surprisingly well out of the final settlement.
I repeat that it takes two and a half hours in a 90mph train to travel 108 miles. Comparable journeys in Sweden are completed in half the time and at half the cost.
Furthermore, we think that we have developed an equitable and fair system for assessing projects, with transparent procedures and fairly speedy decisions compared with decisions on lottery funding, which can take up to two or three times as long.