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In the food industry, the Food Standards Agency communicates very well on that front. For example, it keeps us up to date and asks for our position on various issues; we also receive all the committee materials by e-mail.
It is difficult to see how it could be perceived as progressive now, but in 20 years' time it will look very out of date and will have been overtaken by more efficient and better examples in other local authorities.
A letter from the Minister for Justice, Mr Jim Wallace, dated October 2002, is relevant in this regard, but it did not clarify for me points that the committee raised in the report.
Unless we have a planning system that is more responsive in its ability to keep development plans up to date, we will not be well served. That is a big focus of attention for the planning bill.
You mentioned several times that the new unified board was established only on 1 October 2001. On almost exactly the same date, the decision was taken to set up the pan-Lothian review group.