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One referendum would be sufficient.I understand that the Highland Council local transport strategy dates from about 2000 and that a new strategy is under development.
Please do not get the sense from any of our public espousals that we have been doing nothing over the past 20 years to bring ourselves up to date with information technology. Clearly, we have been bringing ourselves up to date.
If we do not complete stage 2 today, we will have to have a double sitting at a later date. That is the stick; you have had the carrot.Before section 1 Amendment 19, in the name of Richard Simpson, is grouped with amendments 21, 24, 26 and 34 to 36.
At that stage, it was suggested that we come back and update the committee when the project was completed, so perhaps towards the end of today’s meeting we might discuss whether it is worth us coming back again to share the Government’s response.Before I bring the committee up to date on where we are now, I will quickly remind you of the project’s history.
As Craig MacKenzie says, their final views on the priorities will come later. Do we have an exact date for that? I think that it will be towards the end of the month.
We are aware of the statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing on 22 May this year on re-establishing the fuel poverty forum. Prior to that date, when did the forum last meet? You have managed to stump me right away because I was not a member of the forum in its previous incarnation.
There are two elements in the process. First, we must have an up-to-date, tabulated register of the assets that are in the ownership or under the control—I stress the difference between ownership and control—of an authority.
Perhaps we will return to the issue at a later date. Have you considered whether it would be appropriate for a committee of the Parliament to take this work forward?
However, huge aspects of our civil justice system need to be brought up to date for the 21st century. Such measures might not be the most exciting, but they will improve considerably the system in Scotland.