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I agree with Susan Deacon that we should take evidence on the matter. We all have pre-stated opinions on other issues on which the committee takes evidence and the SRU will be no exception to that.
It is normally Jim Mather who goes on about demographics, but Jeremy Purvis has pre-empted him a bit. I will endeavour not to disappoint the convener on that front.
The vast majority of our packages are still in a pre-finished state.Off the top of my head, I cannot say exactly how many packages are active on site, but I guess that the figure is probably in the high 30s.
Given that we are a unicameral Parliament and that we take a pre-legislative consultation approach to scrutiny, we must give more time to the longer and more controversial bills and to those bills that attract both Executive and non-Executive amendments at stage 2.
We set up a similar registration scheme to BT's, whereby we invited the local community to pre-register with us so that we would have our own trigger point and it would be worth buying the kit and ordering up the backhaul for the main part of the internet, or making leased-line arrangements.
There are no further issues to raise on pre and post-council scrutiny, although members will note that there have been continuing delays with some correspondence.
I am not 100 per cent sure of the revised timetable for publication, but I anticipate that we will have an opportunity to consider the report before stage 2. I want to move on to pre-trial disclosure of evidence, particularly early disclosure.
Again, that is largely self-assessed by health boards against pre-defined Executive criteria. The sixth heading, "Staff Governance", falls into the same category, as it is largely self-assessed.
Ballots of any kind will give rise to the obvious comment that Christine Grahame pre-empted my making. This discussion is about the contract and other serious matters.