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I support the amendment in Gavin Brown’s name.15:37 Among other things, the Scottish Government’s motion“notes the importance of continuing to promote Scotland as a place to visit, stay, live and work.”Those are fine sentiments.
It is fair to say that Audit Scotland's reliance on EYF has been a focus of our past attention and discussions. Robert Brown, our EYF specialist, has some questions.
I must ask you to close please, minister. Okay. Robert Brown and Des McNulty also made important points, which I am afraid that I do not have time to cover.
The summary justice reforms are coming through and are tackling the police time problem that members have identified.Robert Brown referred to visiting Tulliallan.
I will ask Mr Ewart to answer the first part of Mr Brown's question shortly. My recollection of Mr Ewart's evidence is that he said that the figure was not a target and that it was"not a line in the sand … but an indicator".
We must, as Fergus Ewing and Robert Brown said, ensure that the system focuses on the cases that need to be dealt with, with others perhaps being addressed in different ways.
As we have illustrated in the debate, with progressive workplaces comes a more equal society. As Gavin Brown said, productivity is key to those workplaces, as is innovation.