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That rather suggests that the site is attractive to some of the smaller businesses.Most of the businesses seem to be bookable either online or via the national phone line.
Such people need courses that are held at 9 o'clock at night, for example, when they have some spare time, or which are available online. Some online provision is developing, but more could definitely be done in that area.
Some of the work done recently by the Department for Transport shows that even if all the proposed deep-sea container terminals around Europe came online, there would still be excess demand.
As Ian Davis said, we have two dedicated customer service centres that support inquiries from the general public and from business users. We have our online registers direct service, which business users can use to conduct searches themselves.
The first is that, as the convener mentioned, this petition is, as far as I know, the first of its kind—it is an online petition. People all over the globe have signed it.
Committee reports
Date published:
19 November 2025
Responses were received from the Educational Institute of Scotland and Dumfries and Galloway Council, which can be found online.
The Finance and Public Administration Committee wrote to this Committee forwarding the submissions to inform our scrutiny of the Bill.
Finally, the evidence points to difficulties in the monitoring of online and indoor prostitution, which in the case of France has been associated with a rise in the prostitution of minors.