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Paragraph 45 of the Executive's response says that it "considers it imperative that a delegated power is taken to enable the period relating to the creation of a land attachment to be altered quickly, to reflect any future change in conveyancing practice."I do not know how that compares with the affirmative procedure.
I know that you have heard a lot about the milk industry and about the difference between the farm-gate price of around 18p per litre of milk compared with the supermarket shelf price of around 50p per litre.
Here we have a whole Parliament that has time to devote to Scottish legislation, so the situation has vastly improved compared with the situation in the past, although I do not know whether it has improved enough.
We must bear in mind the fact that we are not necessarily comparing like with like. I note some of the points that Jamie McGrigor has made about flexibility and not wanting to stipulate to committees what the arrangements for dealing with their business should be.
Perhaps the public perception is that the more a product is packaged and the glossier it looks, the more attractive it is compared with Safeway's or Tesco's own brand, for example.
Dougie Arniel and I are lucky to work in organisations that are comparatively large in sport. Finances are flexible for us, so perhaps we can be a bit more creative with our budgets than can others.
What would also be lost would be any Scottish service tax that those people paid, compared with the council tax that they pay collectively, which does not amount to very much.
The flexibility of the Executive amendment—it is flexible compared with the previous position—is needed to give ministers powers to widen consultation, which the minister mentioned.
People who complain to stores say that the response they receive has worsened, with only 30 per cent saying that stores responded well to complaints, compared with 32 per cent in 2003.What can be done?
It would be churlish not to recognise that additional investment. Compared with other nations, however, we are still underinvesting in our tertiary education and training systems.