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You then said that the cost was 2 per cent of the technical assistance budget. Are we comparing like with like? I am trying to compare what you said with what Laurie Russell said.
I find it more helpful to benchmark against other Governments and to compare, for example, our spending on the civil service proportionate to some measure of the volume of activity with their spending.
Will you take on board the Law Society's suggestion that, in a few years, the performance of tribunals should be compared with that of sheriffs deliberating on cases that have been brought under the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000?
We must bear it in mind that we are not comparing tolerance zones with nothing; rather, we are comparing tolerance zones with dispersed street prostitution.
That means that there would not be a separate threshold for the graduate endowment. Comparing the thresholds in the scheme in the bill and in the scheme that the committee of inquiry was considering is not comparing like with like.
That paragraph says:"In practice this means that the tender should be awarded (except in exceptional and duly justified circumstances) to the bid requiring the lowest financial compensation."
I recall, from the committee inquiry into the Scottish Qualifications Authority, that there was a statutory provision that permitted ministerial direction in exceptional circumstances. Is there a comparable provision for the SPS?