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Overall, railway performance in Scotland is a bit disappointing. We have asked the industry to produce plans to address that and we will have a session with the industry in the next few days to find out how it is doing that.
We considered the issue when we produced our report on alternatives to exclusion, which focused on exclusion procedures and ways of avoiding excluding people.
I have been impressed by the quality of the writing and drawing that the young people have produced and by the understanding and enthusiasm that are evident in them.
The current discredited system should be swept away. I look forward to the review producing a local income tax alternative—a proposal that was put forward by the Liberal Democrats—in the near future.
We will take our time to do it properly, and there will be further informal consultations of those who have an interest. We will thereafter produce proposals that, I am sure, will be fully debated in the Parliament at a later stage.
Section 30(3) gives powers to a sheriff or justice of the peace to grant a warrant authorising detention of a person for three hours for the purposes of medical examination by a specified medical practitioner and requires any person holding relevant medical records to produce them for inspection if required to do so by the specified medical practitioner.
The Conservatives talked about a reduction in land values and said that such a right would be bad for the industry and would immediately produce a major reduction in confidence.