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We anticipate that it will report by the end of this year, but it would be wrong of me to say that that is a firm date. I return to the answer that Kirsty Finlay gave.
Nonetheless, the system could be open to political abuse, although I do not think that that has happened to date. I have not seen any evidence of that.
The person knew that they would be police checked, but there was always the possibility that they would not be discovered and that the police check would come back with a wrong date or date of birth. It just goes to show that we can never be too careful and that we can never have enough statutory checks in place.Kare...
We are still trying to catch up.The two main reasons why I kept trying to get into Westminster past my sell-by date were to get a Scottish Parliament and to stop the destruction of local government.
I have lodged an amendment, which will be dealt with at a later date, by which, with members' agreement, a definition of pest species would be inserted in the bill.We all accept, as we did in our stage 1 report, that pest control is necessary.