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We have a programme with the police to get them to integrate human rights standards into their mainstream training—not just their pre-service training, but their training for promotion.
Where I grew up in Inverness-shire, it was relatively common to see windmills on crofts and smallholdings not to provide electricity, because they pre-dated that technology in that part of the world, but to power water pumps to raise water from the well to feed the water supply to the house and steading.
Although discounts are available through pre-payment certificates, the annual upfront payment of about £100 is difficult for many low-paid workers to find.
How did Clackmannanshire Council, as the promoter of the bill, consult local residents? Was there any pre-consultation and involvement with the local population on how the project should proceed?
I was merely trying to suggest that if we were to try to select a few projects in advance of agreeing the big picture, it might—I stress the word "might"—be easier to do so on a regulatory basis than in a way that pre-empted a decision about which development constraint to address.
I understand that Scottish Enterprise is as it is because of where it stood in pre-devolution days. However, I wonder whether Scottish Enterprise is taking—or should be taking—steps to refocus.
We hope that most problems—I am not sure that we can call them disputes, because we will weed out pre-contract disputes—will be resolved at that level.
I would not expect policy proposals necessarily to be the subject of pre-publication consultation by the UK Government in areas devolved to the Scottish Parliament as a matter of course.
Amendment S2M-381.1, in the name of Stewart Stevenson, is pre-empted. The next question is, that motion S2M-381, in the name of Phil Gallie, on the European constitution, as amended, be agreed to.