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That is why I said that we need to set an interim date and milestones that can be assessed so that we can know that we are going in the right direction.
I also welcome amendment 49, in the name of Stewart Stevenson, which raises an important issue about the need to establish a recognised date of death when the actual date is difficult or impossible to determine.
One of those situations is that, as I understand it, the Presiding Officer has a power to vary the date of the Scottish election by one month either side of the normal date.
Whereas last week's amendment 23 provided that the date should be the same as the date of royal assent, amendment 108 provides for the date to be at the end of the characterisation process for each body of water covered under section 5.
The difficulty for such critics is that the statistics that they use to try to debunk the £8.5 billion figure date from as far back as 2000, six years ago.