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There is obviously a continuum between prevention activity and response activity. Civil contingencies planning generally recognises that events will happen from time to time.
During the summer, I had a meeting with Scottish Government officials, council officials and police to get people round the table to work out what we can do to help people who experience this horrendous problem.
Given that there is a little flexibility in our timetable, do members think that it would be worth having a brief one-off meeting to take evidence on general issues to do with autism, at the end of which we would get the minister in to answer questions?
Could you also find out whether research has been commissioned into the impact of sleep apnoea and other sleeping disorders on road traffic accidents? It is hard to get such statistics, but you might be able to get them.
Perhaps Iain Gray should have a word with his colleagues south of the border and try to get them to emulate the Scottish experience on pupil teacher ratios.