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Information on recently adopted directives and transposition dates is available on our website. I am not sure that we follow closely enough the separation of powers—that is, the extent of reservation or devolution of powers—to be able to make the breakdown.
Everywhere in the country, people who are not genuine blue badge holders use blue badges. There are expiry dates on blue badges, but there is no national register for them and the holder's photo is on the back, rather than the front.
There is no statutory requirement to mitigate noise from railways in Scotland, but the promoter produced a noise and vibration policy, dated March 2005, to set out its approach to mitigating noise.
We expect that the process would start with the appointment of the commissioner and that there would then be discussions about whether the commissioner would seek the appointment of one or two deputies, or perhaps of one deputy now and another at a later date, if that was felt to be helpful.
I must thank the clerks for preparing an extremely helpful summary of the written evidence to date. Members have received copies of all the submissions.