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I hope that the minister will acknowledge that the best way to address the problem is to build the extra 200 places at the single-purpose site at Peterhead.I hope that the minister will show that it is ministers who are driving matters, rather than their officials.
We want the guidance to include the extra level of protection so that sheriffs have to take into account all the circumstances before it is reasonable for them to proceed to an exceptional attachment order.
More than five years ago, an entrepreneur in Mallaig offered the rail company £250,000 of business a year with the sprinter trains, at no cost to the company and involving no extra work. However, the company turned the offer down.
As a consequence of that, we have made sure that extra money is available. For example, I believe that £290,000 is being made available in the Highlands, whereas less than that is being made available in urban areas.
Have they been given sufficient resources to carry out those extra duties? I have to be honest and say that I am not convinced that local authorities have been given sufficient resources to do that.
Will the minister be more specific on that concession on consultation on the designation orders? She referred to extra time. Does she mean 12 weeks rather than six?
We may want to talk to Dr Wilkie about the £26 million that is coming from the extra tobacco tax. I may kick off our questioning with the final question that I asked Dr Dunbar—whether the public health targets that have been set are appropriate and realistic.
Yes, but surely your problem is eased by the fact that you can take that extra space. Yes, it is. Are you able to identify how much extra you might be able to raise it by at this stage, given that you are gaining that bit more space?