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I do not want to give you a definitive answer—as others have done previously—and live to regret those comments. It would be improper for me to do that.
There are issues about training to do the job, which is now increasingly complex and extremely technical—we live in a more complex society and people expect more from their public services.
I assure you that my bias is towards making information available.May I say, in parenthesis, that I was born and raised in Ayrshire and that I live there again having been gone for a long time.
We have had an excellent debate and I thank God that I have lived for long enough to hear an ex-Tory and current Liberal—Keith Raffan—quoting Chairman Mao with fervour.