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If we find out more from people who are based in countries where FGM is common practice and not illegal and where the girls are sent, that might help in determining how to pitch any guidance or awareness campaigns.
You said that an independent body and the ombudsman were alternatives. You now say that you pitch for the independent body. No. I am saying that we have put forward two alternative ways of expressing independence.
We fully agreed with the strategy of appointing general managers and had no problem with the salary band at which those appointments were pitched. We still have no problem with that.
I can only assure the committee that I revisit those issues with officials and, given the inexact nature of the science, we pitch the figures as best we can. In the "Making a difference for Scotland" document, you have lumped together in the spending plans criminal justice social work services and victim issues.
I started with that, but I was not satisfied, even at the most basic level, with the women's accommodation.I therefore pitched for resources to have the remand house refurbished.
However, David Davidson says that he cannot support amendment 5 because he thinks that it might queer the pitch, so to speak, of the independence of the commission.
At Holmhills, despite a strong and sustained community campaign, permission was given to build the new high school right on top of three football pitches and the much-loved park. Was that really the only possible site?
There is no doubt that the current economic management of Scotland is based on a flawed and failed model. As for Des McNulty trying to pitch us into a cycle of overspend—that is simply not going to happen.
It would seem not, as in the past couple of weeks the famous five have been substituted and Captain Salmond is back in the dressing room after only two weeks on the pitch. Even by SNP standards of failure, that is quite a record.