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I appreciate the consensual and very thoughtful approach that committee members have taken to date, and I hope that that will continue as the bill progresses through the Parliament.
I acknowledge the criticisms that have been made of intergovernmental working as we have experienced it to date, and I certainly would not want to go down a route that simply perpetuated that process.
APIL’s hope is that claims management companies will wither on the vine—there is no real need for them and they are a kind of dating agency that no one needs. Once clarity has been introduced into the system, people should go straight to a solicitor, who will charge a single fee.
For the number of legal staff, the up-to-date figure is 533. The high point in the entirety of the service was in 2009-10, when we had 547 legal staff, so we are about 14 away from the all-time high.
On that assumption, what are your priorities within the existing budget, based on your experience to date about how to spend existing money better and more effectively?
In that context, can you comment on the letter that was addressed to the chargé d'affaires of the Libyan Government from Mr Salmond, the First Minister, dated 25 October 2008, in the documents at exhibit 2d?