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The Food Standards Agency and SEPA support the use of the super-affirmative procedure, which builds in extra consultation. Do the witnesses from those bodies want to elaborate on their views on that?
Is building the capacity to deliver the bill an issue? If we create too many extra organisations at the start, we might make it more difficult for the system to start and to deliver on our objectives.
Our only comment was that the proposals should happen in the least bureaucratic way possible so that extra expense will not be incurred. Martyn Evans asked why the requirement does not extend to existing list members.
If someone sees an increased number of vehicles, they think that there must be increased noise, but a few extra vehicles do not produce a big increase in noise.
On several occasions, because we did not have the extra funding, we have had to shut down the service for four weeks to catch up on the backlog—we have an answering machine.
Some high-profile and complex cases take up an inordinate length of time and require extra resources. We have to ensure the very best at all levels of the service.