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Alison Johnstone’s point about the timing of the festivals was interesting. We talk a lot about the dates, because we are still tied to the bank holiday at the end of August, and term dates peregrinate around the calendar.
Some of the flexibility around the dates is due to the fact that we still do not have complete certainty about the supplies that we will get and when we will get them.
I see estate changes and rationalisation as being part of broader reform. We still have an estate that pre-dates not only Police Scotland but some of the eight legacy forces.
I will say one thing to start with: on 1 April—many people might find that date ironic—Douglas Ross was in the great town of Paisley, doing one of his many jobs.
I will bring in Chris Kerr. There is not a date for when every last square inch of Scotland will be on the land register—certainly not from our perspective, because that is not within our gift.
The next question is, that motion S3M-3318, in the name of Bruce Crawford, on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau, on parliamentary recessdates, be agreed to. Motion agreed to.
I am interested in how decisions are made about adopting tech in the health service. During the summer recess, Alison Johnstone and I made a fascinating visit to the cancer research centre at the Western general hospital in Edinburgh, where a guy was testing drugs with a new machine that looked like a fish tank.