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In the Scottish Government’s view, “there are no practical or legislative bars to a formal consent requirement which would allow the flexibility to make GB or UK-wide instruments where that is agreed to be best, while recognising and respecting devolution.”
Given what Yvonne Strachan has said, what positive examples have you set to encourage best practice in that regard? In general, we make information available in the form that people ask for.
Particular issues may exist in some locations, but they can best be addressed through the operation of the market and by licensing boards exercising their local knowledge and expertise.
I welcome Mr Raffan's intervention, which showed the huge uncertainty about the best way to progress. All that I can say is that I tend to rely on evidence.
The Executive is determined to make the interim orders work. The overriding need to share best practice is shown by the fact that two contiguous areas in the same sheriffdom can have very different results with the present orders.