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The organisation is very small—as the report sets out, it has only 26 employees. We will look very closely at financial capacity as part of our 2018-19 audit.
The LCM states that there are no powers available to Scottish Ministers under any other Acts to do this.
Regulations made under section 26 of the Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006 as amended by clause 44 are subject to the affirmative procedure.
This is anecdotal, but I have never had a GP say to me, “If only I could be paid more”. I have. I have, too. They talk to me about different, clinical things, because they are talking about their patients.
I looked at it and said, “Come on.” Such cases are not what we are talking about: we are talking about people who are planting stuff and deliberately trying to avoid legislation.
We last considered this petition on 26 October. At that point, we agreed to write to the Scottish Government seeking information on the anticipated timescales for expanding early learning and childcare provision to one and two-year-olds.
Given SEPA’s success over the past five years, I think that we must have some confidence that, when it talks about better regulation, it is thinking about it very carefully and is going to work through what look like the best options.