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It is important that the views of such organisations on railway policing in Scotland are taken into account. The Scottish Conservatives will therefore support amendments 8 and 9.
We also showed projected growth in England, Northern Ireland and Wales: it is clear that, at 17 per cent, England would account for most of the total population growth in the UK.
There is a tendency among some white groups to look on medicine, law, accountancy and that kind of thing as better, and engineering as less good—my father was an engineer.
However, looking behind the numbers throws up a whole set of considerations that we would then need to take into account—not least of those considerations is whether we are legally able to do some of the things that you might want to do.
It is interesting that, under the bill, if the police make a request and a licensing board decides, “No, that is not for us,” it is accountable to the police for why that is the case.
It has been suggested that performance management systems should be looked at. If managers could be held to account for looking at and ensuring that their staff’s development needs were met, they would take that a lot more seriously.