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We jointly approached the UK Government to seek a derogation for drivers who had been stuck in snow, to give them extra hours to deliver vital food for livestock at this time of year.
Obviously, the University of the Highlands and Islands could not possibly give every lecturer an extra £7,000. Given the huge pay gap, is the Government willing to put money into the sector to ensure equal pay, once the agreement has been reached?
The value of the Fiscal Commission and the extra scrutiny that it can provide is in exactly the point that Dr Armstrong made about getting into the “nooks and crannies” of the model.
Amendment 112 clarifies the meaning of an offence not punishable by imprisonment. Section 1(2) sets out an extra test that has to be met before a constable can arrest someone without a warrant if the offence that the person is suspected of committing is “not punishable by imprisonment”.
I take your point that you would not want advertising to become standard practice, but might some of your fellow professionals take an extra-defensive position by advertising?
While that information is presented to Disclosure Scotland, it would make that decision routinely, and does so currently on those kinds of cases. There is therefore an extra safeguard in the system, which is the purpose of barring under PVG.
That perhaps provides an argument that not everybody needs all of the time that was needed previously to do the extra things. For example, in emergency medicine, there has been a 170 per cent uplift in consultant figures over a very short time.