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Sorry, convener, I thought that I was a member of the group, but my name is not on the list, so I do not have to declare an interest at this time. It appears that we can accept this as an appropriate cross-party group.
Given that employability issues and enterprise culture have been debated in this committee, it must be implicit in the overall objective of the new education bill that business is involved somewhere. We have heard the cry many times in evidence that there is a great gap between the education and business establishments.
There will be an opportunity to discuss and consult on the balance between proper, regular supervision and something that is excessive and obtrusive at the time. We strongly believe that amendment 89 would result in a lower standard of protection for vulnerable people, who are by definition unlikely to be able to protect their own interests.
More recently, the cost has been estimated to have risen to around three times that sum. Even at that price, work would amount only to an interim measure, to enable access through an area that is not part of a formal access route maintained by the council.
Although we will discuss the issue in more detail next week, we felt that, because of our fairly tight time scale, the sooner we advertise for written evidence, the better.
In other words, if no need for assessment was determined, would the situation be revised in five years' time if a need had arisen because of changes that had taken place?
We are trying to develop legislation that will stand the test of time. However, the committee has expressed concerns at the length of time that joint inspections will takeāthe work will not be completed until 2008.