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We will monitor that closely with the other stakeholders, who have been helpful during the consultation process to date. As there are no further questions, we move to item 2, which is to consider the motion on the affirmative instrument.
However, this is a good time to rethink the long-term future—how we will come out of this recession or depression and what we want the housing market, energy and so on to look like in the long run.
Our existing legislation on burials and cremations dates back more than 100 years, and we see each day that it is becoming increasingly unfit for purpose in modern Scotland.
Scottish Power has not invested to date, and the company’s decision not to bid in the capacity market auction from 2018-19 gives a pretty clear indication of its intentions.
Members also now have a copy of a letter from Police Scotland to Mr Robert Forrester, dated this Monday. Can I have your comments on how we take the petition forward and on whether you wish to close it?
I look to other European countries large and small that, despite the global economic recession, have youth unemployment rates of less than 10 per cent.