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Would it be appropriate to have one of them along? It is quite possible that the best academic with pest control knowledge and experience is with the Game Conservancy Trust, which should be represented at the evidence session.
In section 4 of your paper, you have outlined options for extension. Which do you think is the best option? Ideally, we want all schoolchildren to have free school meals, but that is probably not very viable financially.
No, I believe that it will roll forward over a number of years. We will budget for that as best we can. Given the nature of these projects, we will all—including members of this committee, I am sure—want to keep in touch with developments, because they could affect quite significantly the figures that we are looking at.
We have been delivering training based on that publication as best we can. We have provided training to organisations such as the Scottish Rugby Union, the Church of Scotland and the Roman Catholic Church, to help them to develop their own child protection policies, including recruitment and selection procedures and so on.
If we are going to investigate how effective local government has been and the extra pressures to which it has been subjected, we must examine the best-value programme as well. We need to get back some of the figures and reports on that, so that we can compare performances across the different areas of local government.
I agree totally that your second suggestion is the best way forward. Reviews such as the national cultural strategy and the McCrone inquiry have been carried out or commissioned by the Government and we might want to comment on the recommendations of those reviews before they are implemented, or have some input into them.
We are involving all the parties, and the guiding principle is that we are committed to the best policing. That will be the guiding criterion and not whether there are two, three, four, five, six, seven or eight forces.