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Although I do not underestimate the difficulty of gathering evidence and establishing proof in cases that date from before September 1964, that date seems arbitrary.
Very few employers reach it, whether they be Government departments or other employers. If, to date, we have failed completely to convince employers to do that, how will we convince them to go further and to employ people at home?
We have discovered that, for some reason that is difficult to work out, when a bingo club closes, up to half of its customers do not adjourn to the nearest bingo club. We are doing an up-to-date survey on that to see whether our old evidence still holds good.
We should perhaps consider in principle fixing one formal meeting of this committee over the summer recess. To do that, we would have to accept that we will have to hand to the clerks our various commitment dates for the summer recess, so that they can draw up some kind of app...
My understanding is that the transport bill is likely to be introduced after the Easter recess, but before the summer recess. We will clarify that point and deal with any problems that arise.
Quite a lot of work has been done on them over the recess; after all, given that the implementation date for the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 is 5 October, the orders need to be in a reasonable state.No points that I can see arise on the draft order.