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In the short term, surely we can improve the systems and procedures throughout Scotland to help families in your circumstances, while taking into account the need to consider the longer-term and challenging big issues.I suppose that my points are really addressed to my colleagues on the committee.
Members may wish to record an abstention. Under rule 11.11.2, no account of those votes will be taken in establishing whether a simple majority has been achieved.
We think that having transparency and making those agencies accountable for the money that they spend is, in itself, a good thing and we think that it will lead to a reduction in expenditure on non-essential items.My final point is on the amendments to which Mr Purvis referred.
The consistency that we are talking about relates to a fairly broad framework, within which there is plenty of scope for individual changes and conditions to be taken into account when an authority is drawing up its plan.
His point about the press making the Government and people in positions of authority more accountable is important. That raises the question of how we ensure that the press is vivid, viable, moving forward and taking on new technologies.
The regulations, which will be a matter for subsequent discussion and approval by the Parliament, would lay out a number of factors that sunbed operators would be required to follow.