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To take up your invitation to provide an example, I think that, in many instances, construction cases provide the best examples, partly because they are complex and involve many parties.
We process 24 hours a day in Disclosure Scotland. We think that that is the best way forward. It also reduces the amount of backlog and will ensure that we can move through the process and deal with the certificates quickly.
In some ways, that is about trying our best to lose what belongs to the IJB, the council and the national health service board and focus on what matters to the people of North Lanarkshire and how we can best deliver that, no matter where a service sits in the system.
Are there any situations for which a civic death would be appropriate and proportionate? That is the best case. The question is how we see the right to vote.
On the question of how we can make best use of taxpayer representation on the SA return, it has been a learning process for two years, and it might well continue to be.
I am sure that that takes a lot of energy, time and resources, whereas if the priorities are a given and it is the agency’s role to best deliver that particular film policy, that might create a better and more transparent process.
A lot of large companies have their headquarters in West Lothian, so we need some of the best talent to stay there, but people are still leaving and going to Glasgow or Edinburgh.
In making nominations, the SPCB must use its best endeavours to ensure that the Trustee Board includes both a participating member and a scheme pensioner.