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In some areas, there is a lack of co-ordination. An attempt must be made at a strategic level to determine what the clients require, what is missing and who can provide it.
I will supplement that in the spirit in which the question on the mooted one-stop shop approach was posed. It could be the role of a co-ordinating unit within one of the existing regulators—perhaps the Executive or SEPA—to oversee and co-ordinate applications.
Historically, there was a mandate from the Scottish Office in 1989 to produce alcohol misuse co-ordinating committees. We used that to bring together all the addiction agencies under one banner.
Those arrangements included the appointment of a national co-ordinator—John Corrigan, who is a member of my force whom some members will know.We have a regional intelligence cell in Scotland and there is a similar arrangement in regions in England and Wales.