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That gives us a glimpse of the financial challenge and the skills and materials that we need. I do not, of course, lay that challenge at the Government’s door; nonetheless, that is what we are looking at.
The Scottish Law Commission’s paper “Signatures in Scots Law: Form, Effect, and Proof” provides a comprehensive account of the current law on the last two matters, and the first is now provided for in legislation.
As I have said before, within the current constraints that Westminster lays down for franchising, it is possible for a not-for-profit option to come forward.
One aspect of the code that was welcomed was in paragraph 9, which made it clear that the regulators to which the code applies must take the code into account in developing policies or principles but not in the exercise of “any specified regulatory function in individual cases”.
The Police Authority board has enough to do to hold the police service to account and to show good governance without trying to manage and drive forward part of the service.
I do not prickle easily, but I rather prickled at the comments that have been made about this committee not taking into account human rights. We will put something in and get back to you.
However, I did not think that I misunderstood what she said about provision.Therefore, at this stage, I am not sure that rushing into further investigation on our own account would add value to the broad range of intelligence that we have.
Time and again it has been shown that policies must take into account the context in which they will be applied, including social, economic and political factors.