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Every member has now had the chance to put and follow a line of questioning. As I realise that other questions have now emerged, I am quite happy to allow another round of questioning.
I do not want to drive a wedge between the different ombudsmen, but Ian Smith said that the convention should be followed to the letter. You seem to be indicating that what should be followed is the spirit of the convention.
The new SQA system collected the registration data up front—the candidate's particulars—and then followed that with the entry data. We had such problems processing the registration data that we could not process the entry data that followed.