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I have participated in many question-and-answer sessions, which have ranged from primary 2 pupils asking me what I do as an MSP to senior pupils wanting to know whether I think that MSPs are worth their salaries.
The CPG will not be made up of a small selection of MSPs concentrating on a special interest; it relates to constituency work and questions that MSPs are being asked and do not necessarily know how to answer.
The position is that what is on the public website is what is available to other MSPs. You have the public papers. All the other documents are papers that the committee has decided are private.
Again, that information was available to MSPs during the course of the bill. Any points made in the committees or the chamber can be taken into account in revising the regulations and bringing them forward later.
We must consider that there are list MSPs, constituency MSPs, those with families, those without families, those within 20 minutes of Parliament and those who are three, four or five hours away, or even further away.
At least 20 of the 31 responses to the consultation have come from cross-party groups, which of course are convened by MSPs, or from individual MSPs. As a result, MSPs have had a chance to correspond directly.
I sometimes had the distinct impression that, in regions that included a Liberal Democrat constituency MSP, the Opposition regional MSPs and indeed the coalition partnership regional MSPs were not always welcome on that constituency MSP's patch.