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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.
Specifically, the UK Government has announced that HMS Bulwark, three helicopters and two border patrol ships have been sent as part of the EU’s extra efforts in operations Triton and Poseidon.
We expect to take higher numbers around the end of March and the beginning of April, and we will ensure that we have extra staff online who will be ready to answer calls if necessary.
We have had instances where guys have followed the sat nav, perhaps because new briefs have come in, and we have had to sit them down and go over things again because they have gone round the bypass and that has added an extra £5 or £6 on the fare. The drivers have to have the knowledge—that is a key part of our service.