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The difficulty is that, under the legal aid rules, the payment of a solicitor's account—which is a taxed account—must be met first out of any expenses that are recovered and then out of any principal sum.
Parties will be asked for their views and suggestions and I hope that we will all agree that people should be chosen to serve on the committee on account of their expertise, rather than on account of partisan loyalty.
For example, after staffing costs and ring fencing are taken into account, the controllable budget can be as little as 5 per cent of the school-level costs.
The second question is, that motion S2M-5320, in the name of Wendy Alexander, on the Finance Committee's seventh report of 2006, "Inquiry into Accountability and Governance", be agreed to.
Allowance is also made for views of the MSP concerned to be taken into account when any such decision is made.Amendment 1 therefore addresses the concerns that were raised regarding damaging reasons for withdrawal.