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Linda Fabiani raises the critical issue of future monitoring, which we have not really explored. To date, our discussions have dealt with the evidence in front of us.
ECHR claims are anticipated and you may have to take them on board, and there are also grey areas in relation to which matters are devolved and which are not. Do you have an audit of that to date and do you have a projected figure in your costings for the justice department?
Someone will have to put me right as to the date, but I am sure that legislation in the 1940s stipulated that every new secondary school had to be built with a school library.
We hope to have a large pool of mentors in place by 1 April so that, from that date, small firms that qualify for support will be able to access a mentor who is suited to their needs.
I am pleased to record publicly my gratitude to the members of the partnership for their efforts to date, and particularly my gratitude for the services provided by Women's Aid and other voluntary and statutory organisations in dealing with the victims of abuse.
We have had a number of discussions to date. Proposals have now been submitted, so the question is the extent to which our discussions with the promoter can change the proposals.
I thank the clerks for their work this year, and members who have managed today's endurance test and I wish them and everyone else a happy recess. I hope that you come back bright, brisk and ready for another year.
I echo the points of those who had the opportunity—which I did not have, incidentally—to strengthen European links during the recess. That is important at all levels of society in Scotland, from school-age upwards.
I was sorry that during the summer recess I was unable to welcome Margaret Curran to my constituency of Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, because we could not merge our timetables, but she would still be very welcome.
In the early and mid-1990s, our gross domestic product per head relative to the rest of the UK looked better because of the fact that England was in recession while Scotland was not. The issue is that we made the wrong policy decisions.