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The cabinet secretary said that Scotland should have sovereignty over all economic policy, but the SNP would keep the Bank of England and British interest rates.
Although we have laws in place already with the public sector equality duty that, in essence, require the collection and disaggregation of data, to date, we have failed to see any real progress on that.
Given that they contain obligations that the landowner is responsible for taking forward, do you think that, if the land changes hands and is sold and purchased by someone else, that person should inherit the obligations in the land management plan, if the sale happens before the date when the plan was due to expire?
I do not know whether the committee has up-to-date information on complaints, such as how many are dealt with each year, how many emanate from the public and how many come from the police.
On the point about juries being unable to reach a verdict, the most recent research—which is, I think, from New Zealand and dates from 2000—talks about a hung jury rate of 8.7 per cent, which is quite significant.
As much as the trials that I mentioned are intense for the two communities, the journey will not finish at their end date. We will need to keep going back.