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The Scottish Executive tended to attend those fora with a watching brief; there was not much proactive articulation of the views that we were looking to be expressed at United Kingdom level. Is there a need for a formal mechanism whereby we can ask for an issue that is pertinent or important to Scotland to be debated properly before implementation?
Cornton Vale is very remote for people who are travelling from any part of the country. There is nowhere for visitors to wait and there are no facilities that would allow families to visit in a relatively normal environment.
Is there scope to increase the maximum penalty for people who wilfully destroy breeding sites? It would be best if I tried to explain the rationale behind the proposals as they are.
If the information is held in a dispersed fashion across the authority’s functions or sites, that comes within the scope of information that can be recovered.