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On the financial back-up to the settlement, I imagine that the Minister for Transport will bring appropriate officials to support him in answering questions.
During the meeting last week between my officials and the Disability Rights Commission, an amendment to section 11—not section 12, because that would apply only to the upper cost threshold—was discussed.
—Official Report, Justice 1 Committee, 21 November 2001; c 2841.Executive officials told the committee that ministerial certificates would be used only in "limited circumstances".
At that meeting, which took place on 20 September, the ministers were represented by Executive officials. Lesley Irvine from Women's Aid was again present.
My understanding from the discussions that we had with officials such as Graham Donaldson was that they assumed that they had implied consent for inspections.
We agreed unanimously on how we should set up a single body to run the game. That body would include paid officials who have the appropriate skills to move the game forward in areas such as finance.
Is the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities discussing those suggestions with Scottish Executive officials on your behalf? We have been discussing them with COSLA and we have also discussed them with Scottish Executive officials.
Nevertheless, organisations need to work effectively together externally and in the Executive. The political and official structures, such as the joint ministerial and joint official groups, are in place to do that.