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To ask the Scottish Government by what date it will review the fees paid to optometrists and, in light of these last increasing 12 years ago, what its position is on introducing a regular review mechanism.
A huge amount of time is wasted in the process of criminal investigations in complying with outmoded, analogue ways of dealing with documents—for example, if the police are doing a financial crime investigation and they secure a warrant to recover bank statements from a bank, officers have to go to the bank to physically collect the statements.
To ask the Scottish Government when testing of systems and processes for the 2022 census will begin. Planning for Scotland’s Census 2022 is well underway.
It was agreed that all papers considered at the meeting should be published. Date of next meeting 11. The next meeting of the Bureau would be at 12 noon on Tuesday 1 September.