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Would it be easier for you if all the powers lay with the Scottish Parliament? As an organisation that is based in Scotland, we have certainly found it much easier to engage with the Scottish Parliament.
No Government should have to justify itself to a Parliament to which it is not accountable. I do not believe that that happens in any other jurisdiction.
That is why the restriction to an intention to cause alarm and distress limits the scope of the law and does not take account of the victims’ experiences.
Moreover, do you have any indication of unmet demand, or demand peaks, during the Commonwealth games and other such events that the local authority could have taken into account to increase the number of taxi licences?
I submitted evidence in written format and I went along to the initial appeal to give a verbal account of the situation, but I was not involved in the final decision-making process.
The SMC deemed that its QALY decision modifiers accounted for end-of-life situations, but we do not really know, because we do not really understand what they do.