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Does that issue relate to cases in which the MSP to be investigated is anonymous—in other words, it is not known which MSP is involved—and to cases in which the complainant is anonymous?
We know that the view that is taken by the press—that MSPs treat the recess as a holiday—is a fallacy but, just as MSPs take holidays during recesses, particularly the summer, so do Executive staff.
A declaration of future interests would apply only to current MSPs; once someone was no longer an MSP, the declaration's provisions would not apply to them.