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Jill Stevenson, dean of diversity and inclusion and director of student services at the University of Stirling, felt that a specific offence may provide a better sense of the prevalence of spiking in Scotland.
Genes give the code for a specific instruction. This instruction may or may not be ‘followed’, this means that it does not always lead to a specific condition or state.
This aligns with the position in other wildlife legislation, for example section 16(5) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 provides that “…the appropriate authority may charge therfor such reasonable sum (if any) as they may determine.”
However we would welcome your views on whether, going forward, you think that you may require more effective and quicker compliance methods, especially if your remit is expanded to include other organisations.
That said, it provided an opportunity for the Committee to seek views to inform the content of the next MTFS, which is to be published in May/June 2022 for the first time alongside, and to be informed by, a resource spending review.
Representatives reported feeling unable to challenge proposals robustly where funding for their organisation or peers may be at stake. • Voting for or against a proposal may carry reputational or relational risks for the individual or the organisation they represent.