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While restoring normal services, we must not lose the gains that we have seen recently with the roll-out of new technologies and techniques. We have seen the rapid adoption of digital consultations, for example through the attend anywhere and near me systems.
Of course, the driving force—to coin a phrase—behind many of the changes that we have heard about so far is the rapid pace of technological advancements and the growing popularity of low or zero-carbon-emission vehicles.
I have been in court and watched witnesses and accused persons hear a rapid oral delivery of various information about bail conditions and so forth, and it is perfectly clear that people do not absorb all that information.
Each meat plant in Scotland has a team that deals with all the paperwork from the export health certificates to the liaison with the haulage companies, and it transfers all those documents backwards and forwards.
For example, the existing expo and platforms for creative excellence funds have been used not only by the fringe but by other festivals to ensure that they can maintain their sustainability. The rapid decisions that we took have helped to ensure that those festivals will return next year.
To ask the Scottish Executive who the members are of the Tourism, Cultural Heritage and Community Liaison Group that will advise on mitigation on the Beauly to Denny power line in areas of sensitivity.