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Will the Scottish Government provide best practice guidance to local authorities on the conduct of their investigations, and will the minister ask the national health service to co-operate with any local investigations?
I hope that she will work constructively with us to ensure that the new Scottish food standards agency is the best that it possibly can be.I say gently to Ruth Davidson— Och!
That will go into legislation to ensure that that provision is available to everyone in all areas of Scotland, and that will give us the best package of childcare and pre-school facilities of any country in these islands.
We all appreciate the reality of the decline in participation, volunteering and investment, which has been talked about today. We are doing the best with what we have, but we can do more.
Do you have any thoughts on how the balance can be struck such that there is not the negative impact that you persuasively outlined but that, at the same time, the SPS can do its job to the best of its ability? Yes, absolutely.
We have very good and on-going discussions with it about methodologies. Where we differ, we do our best to explain why. As I said, it is mostly down to what data is available to different forecasts at different points.