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Secondly, key information was often only elicited from the relevant department after the publication of the committee's report, usually through interviews with officials or with the minister himself or herself.
This is a national problem—a national formula."—Official Report, Public Petitions Committee, 20 June 2000; c 501.The petition relates to a specific local situation, and that should not surprise us, as it comes from a local community.
Annabel Goldie made a good point about all the technology that we now have. On the other side of the coin, following the advent of such procedures as DNA testing, cases have become more and more complicated.
Last year, Aberdeenshire Council would have received £26 million more if it had received the same grant per head of population as Stirling Council received.
The theme that runs through them all is that we do not believe that any of the Executive departments makes its calculations on an appropriate basis in the first place.I have read the Official Report of the Finance Committee meeting at which the issue was discussed.
I suspect that the first annual general meeting will be the first opportunity to incorporate his comments officially, but I will take advice from the clerk about that.
I suggest that we invite John Elvidge and others to read the Official Report of Michael Barber's evidence, in concert with the slides, and to give us their thoughts.