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When EARL plus some of the other projects that are in the pipeline are introduced, the catchment area will be widened. We cannot compare like with like when we start to look into the future.
The levels of expenditure in Scotland on transport over the next three years are due to grow by only 16.1 per cent compared with 23.1 per cent in England—that is a gap of £180 million.
The aim of improving partnership working between all the agencies that are involved in the management and rehabilitation of offenders is perfectly sensible—except to Annabel Goldie and the Tories.
However, a person might not be able to carry out that service on behalf of the council except as a trustee, unless we are saying that the service can be contracted out to anyone who might wish to apply to do it.
It would be wrong to try to catch automatically the elements of the private sector that are involved in contracts to provide public services, except in the tightly defined circumstances in section 6 of the bill.
I say "almost exclusively" because there are welcome measures for restricting the sale of knives and banning swords—except for wholly justified circumstances.