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Not every family has to use a funeral director.On accountability and the management of the funds that are collected, it seems to me that every death must be registered.
We recognise that a number of stakeholders, such as the Scottish Trades Union Congress and the National Union of Students Scotland, attach significant importance to the existence of ministerial powers over colleges as a means of ensuring the democratic accountability of colleges. Those are legitimate views that we feel the review should consider.
One of the key themes of our report is that tackling fuel poverty requires an holistic approach that takes into account all the ingredients. We could do more; for example, we could provide further investment to tackle the households that are in deepest fuel poverty and their homes.
Perhaps we should write to Audit Scotland and ask it to take account of the committee's particular interest in ensuring that the 2001-02 figures are updated.
It would be nice if we could afford universal free school meals, but the cost of that must be taken into account. In reality, we must address the gap that Tam Baillie spoke about: a significant number of children who live in poverty are not entitled to free school meals.
They have been designed to take account of the changing environment within which scrutiny of public services takes place as well as the feedback received on the inspection process, and the findings from research with external stakeholders.
The first is that the budget is cash limited, and the total supply of funding does not take into account the total student demand. As you mentioned, Mrs Scanlon, around this time of year colleges say that they have run out of money for bursary support.
I believe that we have established that if someone has opted out they do not need a proxy, because that wish is taken into account. One imagines that if they have opted in, they do not need a proxy either, because they have made known their views and those views are recorded.