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Paragraph 3.8 of your statement provides positive evidence about the possible impact of the investment value at Hermiston Gait. Is that account balanced and based on all the existing evidence?
Paragraph 29 of the legal brief says:"However, the existing power in section 98 of the 1980 Act is a power to give directions and that is considered to provide an appropriate degree of flexibility over time, to enable account to be taken of developments in the practical administration of the system."
We are not equipped to resolve the issue of two people's different accounts of a telephone conversation. We have to go with the evidence before us and ask whether it points clearly to impropriety.
We will deliver a radical housing bill, which will lay the firm foundations for creating a Scotland where everyone matters, whether they are tenants, owner-occupiers or people sleeping rough.
In the past, people conducted virtually all their financial dealings with their local branch—current accounts, mortgages, personal loans and house insurance.
I intend to continue that, and I intend to ensure that people who are responsible, in various agencies, do their jobs. They are accountable to me for that, and I am accountable to the Parliament.
The position of the procurator fiscal is but one factor in an array of things that must be taken into account. Indeed, the procurators fiscal in Edinburgh are able to deal with such matters and the sheriffs are able to come down from Edinburgh to Peebles.