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We think that legislating in Scotland would provide us with the best opportunity to get the law right; the 2004 legislation was passed by the Scottish Parliament through a Sewel motion.
That allows the Parliament to examine what has worked well and what it can do better, with the aim of making this Parliament the best that it can be for the people of Scotland.
I welcome Caroline Gardner, the Auditor General for Scotland; and from Audit Scotland Fraser McKinlay, director of performance audit and best value; Tricia Meldrum, senior manager; and Michael Oliphant, project manager.
Our challenge is to evolve our health service to best meet the needs of an older population who will often have multiple complex conditions, while ensuring that we drive down health inequalities found in our most deprived communities.
I was not expressing an opinion on which tax powers were best used for which policy purposes except, to a limited extent, in paragraph 20 of my paper, regarding sin taxes—fuel taxes and excise.
I will give a couple of examples of how we have brought SMEs and the company base into our European-funded projects. Raising awareness is probably best done by engaging people directly and showing them how they can get involved.