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The haulage contractors raised many examples of their concern that they were perhaps not making best use of the load potential because of demands that are placed on them by clients.
However, the criminal justice system as a whole still fails to give offenders who face such problems the best chance of getting their lives together and stopping reoffending.
People get into debt and overindebtedness because, with the best will in the world and the best skills in the world, they cannot manage on the very low incomes that many people get by on.
If I have only one minute, it would be best to provide written evidence. That would be useful, as it would allow us to go into more detail.I thank everybody for coming along.
The committee must judge, Mr Stimpson, whether the regulations are reasonable and proportionate and what is in the best interests of the people of Scotland.
We are identifying areas in which Scottish Enterprise, as a public sector organisation that can pull certain levers, can have maximum impact and areas in which it is best that the private sector either be involved or do all the work.
The bill could provide one of the best tools for reducing reoffending that would be available to the criminal justice and community-based services—the use of home detention curfews.
Rightly or wrongly, there are perceptions out there that VisitScotland is a wee bit centralist and anti-devolutionist, with a we-know-best attitude. The staff have fears about what will happen when that effect starts to kick in.
We might just be arguing about the best wording. There is no disagreement that we are all trying to achieve the central purpose of the bill—certainty in High Court trials.