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I endorse what Cathy Jamieson said: parliamentarians of all forums have a role to play, and individual members can take up these issues with elected members of all parties.Does the committee feel that the various other bodies to whom we could make representations should be in receipt of the views that we have reached today and a copy of the paper?
In particular, correspondence from the Refugee Survival Trust in Scotland drew the committee's attention to the fact that that organisation has had recently to make payments to pregnant women and families with newborn children, because asylum seekers who are in receipt of vouchers get no additional help for those extra costs.
He would also like a timetable to be set out for the receipt of that information. Those matters are being addressed by the Transport and the Environment Committee, of which Helen Eadie, who has just left the room, is a member.
Does Shona Robison agree that the clawback of capital receipts, to which she referred and which deny Scotland £482.6 million of investment, is a matter over which the Scottish Parliament has power?
Whether the First Minister is technically in breach of the ministerial code is a matter on which I suspect no definitive or objective judgment will ever be made.
All of them invoke commercial copyright to prevent anyone else looking at their computer code. I do not think that the computer code in any computer system should be secret; the computer code should be published, like a bill, so that other people—there are many computer progra...
The debate in the Justice 2 Committee alluded to some guidance, but the guidance, although it is good, is a voluntary code rather than a compulsory one. More could be done in the bill to make good conduct compulsory.