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If our concern is proportionality, we should focus on the size of wards under STV and the size of the top-up under AMS, rather than on the choice between AMS and STV.
The second would be a brand new scheme—with all the tracking that that requires—which would need to be built on top of the first to collect the endowment.
We read in the papers that there is a worrying escalation in our drug problem. Another league that we top is that of teenage pregnancies; 13 of the top 20 constituencies for single parents are in Scotland and of the top six, five are in Glasgow.We do not want to be top of those league tables.
Community planning became the vehicle for identifying the shared needs of the community. The buy-in of the community was then explored to determine how people wanted their services to be delivered in order to meet their needs.
If we are thinking about having a focused theme for the conference, it should come from the business community rather than from the Parliament because it is important to get buy-in from the businesspeople.I also agree with Karen Gillon's point that it would be useful to have sectoral groups.