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As I have mentioned, we also intend to carry out further analysis of the relationship between MSPs and lobbyists and to consider a number of different models for investigation of complaints against MSPs.
I think that the bill will probably affect their rights. I am an urban MSP for Glasgow. I have always been anti-hunting, having been brought up in part in the Borders.
Civil servants do a hard job, but I am concerned, Donald Gorrie, that instead of relying on the good sense of MSPs and the Presiding Officer, some rigid principle will be landed on us like a stone weight.
If part of that, as is claimed in the press, is demands from MSPs for additions, I would like to know who made the demands, what was demanded and who authorised them.
Members should also have received, either with the agenda or subsequently, papers from Michael Russell MSP and Phil Gallie MSP. There is also a letter from Lord James Douglas-Hamilton MSP, which makes some points on behalf of the Conservative group.
That is the educational process that happens in parallel with, in addition to and prior to engagement with MSPs. I have a question about the Scottish Civic Forum's funding.
I hope that the fact that other agencies are opening up their files will force the institutions that have given no firm commitment in that regard to give access to their own files. Linda Fabiani MSP and Janis Hughes MSP are here. Do you want to comment, Linda?