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As a general practitioner, it is difficult for me simply to accept that the GP is the best place for that. The immediate reaction of many people might be that a solicitor would be the best person with whom to lodge such documents.
Secondly, when you analyse the 3,000 responses, how do you know that they represent what the people of Edinburgh think? It is our best guess. We have done our best to establish what the feedback is and what people think.
In the light of the consultation, particularly of the views of the then franchising director, we took the view that it would be best to allocate the franchises on a long-term basis and that vehicle miles were the best available measure to use.