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At the time, the procurator fiscal would not release the post-mortem report to me. Ms Sturgeon was good enough to contact the PF department and I received a copy of the report subsequently.
I agree entirely with what Jackie Baillie said, but I would also like us to contact the police. I am surprised that the onus is on the police to ask whether such people are to be released and that they are not notified automatically.
As Richard Lochhead knows, the process could work in the other direction. We are in contact with authorities in Grampian about that case and we continue to be in contact with our colleagues in the Home Office on it and other issues.
However, it has developed a good deal since then.The covenant sees—if I have read it correctly—the Local Government Committee as the contact between local government and the Parliament.
Do you foresee an explosion of leasehold tenure in Scotland with the abolition of the feudal system? Will people buy 99-year leases in Scotland, as they do in England, rather than have freehold tenure?
Local authority enforcers are those who are most likely to come into contact with businesses. It would therefore make sense to focus more attention on them.
In the context of our discussion with the Finnish Parliament's Environment Committee clerk, if sustainable development is to be a strategic policy of the Government that people buy into, issues such as the one that we are discussing must fit in with that policy.