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We try our best to answer as many questions as we can, but they cover a wide range. Some people might ask us a precise question about whether it is okay to ask a personal assistant to do such and such.
A by-election was held in Aberdeenshire at the same time and I have spoken to the returning officer/chief executive of Aberdeenshire to find out his views about last week's events.Sir Neil McIntosh visited us in Strathkelvin and Bearsden last week in his capacity as one of the six electoral commissioners to find out how we were conducting the combined elect...
At the moment, that is conducted informally, on an ad hoc basis. We visit schools, but we do not have the resources to produce educational materials to fit in with the curriculum; we have to play it by ear.
We were unable to hear all the CML's evidence, but we are aware that it is also a major comfort for lenders, who know that we produce monitoring reports after a visit. They demand to see those before they lend huge sums of money to housing associations.
On a practical level, each of you—when you visit factories and employers in your constituencies, and when you address business audiences or hold seminars and workshops—can raise people's awareness of their obligations under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.