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You quoted the point about our now having got to 98 per cent confidence. As with any large data sets, the best way to improve ours is to compare it with other data sets.
I will try to accommodate them as best I can. 17:16 Presiding Officer, I give you and Bill Kidd my apologies, as I will not be able to stay until the end of the debate.
Therefore, we look for, if not national commissioning, at least a national mapping and understanding of how best to join up housing knowledge throughout the country.
I do believe, however, that it is worth considering the matter and that we should ask the best people to look into it. For me, the best people are the commissioner and the Procurator Fiscal Service, who can give their considered opinions.
That was based on technical aspects to do with where on people a gun is carried and whether it is covert when they get it out. In terms of best practice and in consultation with Police Scotland, we felt that overt carriage was the safest and best way of carrying a weapon.
It is fair to say that this devolved Parliament has taken a little time to work out the best way to deliver that objective, but there is no need to apologise for that.
What should be done with 15-year-olds who are turning 16 and their national insurance numbers comes back to the need for detailed early planning to look at the best way of getting the 15-year-olds who do not have a national insurance number on to the register by the time they are 16.
Our experience of dealing with the police service generally, and with senior officers who worked directly with us, was one of the best experiences that I have had of partnership working.