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The expectation is that, when it reports to Shona Robison in spring 2010, the points that you raise should be answered in its report. How do we serve the best interests of communities and provide the services that they need?
Evidence that was gathered some time ago suggests that homeless people tend not to be offered the best choices, despite the best efforts of local authorities to ensure equal access to housing for everyone.
I am sure that young people do not really want to hang around outside off-licences, in parks, by railway lines, and so on drinking. Is that the best we can do as a nation? I do not think so.
There will always be tensions and differences of opinion: the role of central Government is to make it easier for the key partners in the process to come together to decide on the best way forward, in the interests of communities.
My only thought is that, a long time ago as law students, we were told that delegated powers were not the best way of making good law. That is what I carry through life.
It is a challenging exercise for anyone, including professionals, but we try our best. As I said, I have personally never ended up in the Land Court in front of an arbiter.
—the Consumers Association—and Citizens Advice Scotland said that they were relaxed about a £150,000 threshold and that that was the best way to address the issue of court reform.