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Such actions have included reducing the notification period for inspections and reducing the amount of pre-inspection information requested from establishments being inspected.
In the medium term, the savings—if interventions from pre-birth to age eight are 100 per cent effective—could be up to £131 million a year across Scotland.
Amendment 58, in the name of Mary Scanlon, is grouped with amendments 59, 60 to 62 and 69. I draw members’ attention to the pre-emption information in the list of groupings.
If there had been a mechanism through which the SAC could have sought the advice that it needed to help it to follow the rules, that might have pre-empted the problem. Advice would undoubtedly be available from the Scottish Executive should such bodies seek to obtain it.
We have already asked the Government to subject its spending plans—its budget—to a carbon assessment. During pre-legislative and legislative scrutiny, we also look at the financial consequences of bills, as best we understand them.