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We need a bill and orders that deliver that.We accept all the points that MSPs have made. When we examine the detail, we will take the matter on board as a priority.
However, I repeat that homeless families are a priority-need category, and have been throughout my years as an MP and as an MSP. It is nothing new that families have those rights.
First, I am always fascinated when I am grilled on those issues by MSPs from parties that do not have the proposals in their manifestos and are not committed to funding them.
Some structural changes could be made—that is not for us to say—but customers need to have a strong voice in the process and, apart from through MSPs and ministers, they tend not to be heard.
However, parents and representativescan of course raise such issues locally with their local authority and MSPs canof course initiate Parliamentary action.
I refer the Member to myletter to all MSPs of 11 May 2006. A copy of the letter is available at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/nmCentre/news/news-06/pa06-046.htm.
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body whether it was originally envisaged that MSPs could access the Edinburgh accommodation allowance to facilitate the purchase of private property for themselves.