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I accept that the office-holders are independent, but they are not above accountability. They use and distribute large sums of public money, so they are accountable for their work.
The best example of that is from when the Executive was obliged to lay before Parliament a report on the right to buy before we could take into account the new measures to limit the right to buy.
We welcome what the Law Society of Scotland has been doing. It has put lay people on some of its committees, which is a help in speeding up the process of dealing with complaints.
Indeed, it may reduce the level of accountability for the arrangements that are in place by removing the requirement to account for the extent to which the existing arrangements are used.
Progress has not been as fast as we had hoped it would be. The Executive is working to lay a consolidated instrument. We can say, perhaps, that the Executive is in the middle of the beginning of the consultation.
The Executive has indicated that it will lay an amending order in due course.Given that no member has raised any issues, I suspect that the committee has no comment to make on the instruments.Members indicated agreement.
Pupils' Educational Records (Scotland) Regulations 2003 (SSI 2003/581) We have a number of points on SSI 2003/581—they are listed (a) to (g) in the legal briefing—but they are of much smaller magnitude than those that we had on the Registration of Establishments Keeping Laying Hens (Scotland) Regulations 2003.