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We held regional seminars that were attended by small and medium-sized NGOs, we created a website seeking views by e-mail, we placed leaflets and posters in libraries, to attract the views of private individuals, and we wrote to schools.
For example, I have met the people who are developing the website, which will be an important element of the Scottish tourism industry, but we cannot have shambles after shambles in our most important industry.
That has been beyond belief in some cases. Some of the website coverage in America has been ridiculous and inappropriate, and the factual errors in it are enormous.
The offence of soliciting is about a financial transaction that takes away consent. If we are considering the implications for 16 and 17-year-olds, it is worth worrying about how consensual the acts are in which people engage.
A central thrust of that report was that criminal justice agencies had to generate the capacity to operate more effectively within the system and had to invest in the transaction costs and the information costs that were associated with that.
One country in which they still operate is Hungary, where they have not succeeded in eradicating illicit transactions. I am aware of some of the international examples that Annabel Goldie cites.