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The point that I am getting at is that, if you set in law regulations that say that householders need to do X, Y or Z, how on earth will you make me do anything to my house without coming into it?
There are returning officers who have all of these things in place and others who do not, and we need to tell them, “You need to do X, Y and Z so that we get this done.” We have to ensure that it becomes part of the culture.
This could be the reaction of one generation to another, with Gen Z being “so immersed” in the online world, but the BBC “should be moving into that space” and playing “a crucial role by talking to audiences at that early stage”.5Scottish Parliament. (2026).
Lord Carloway has told me that he does not regard it necessarily as a package, but I think that it is an A to Z review of the law in Scotland, if I can put it that way.
I am a little surprised that the list is as definitive as it is, so I favour that approach.The rules might not permit this at the moment, but following our review of cross-party groups, we might want to delegate it to the clerks to say that there is no point in a proposed group putting in an application to the committee unless it follows X, Y and Z rules, i...
We will have a detailed product to bring back to the Parliament and we will say, “The purpose of this detailed secondary legislation is X, Y and Z, and this is all the work that has been done to support it.”
11:30 Supposing the local commander has been told that he has X amount of pounds for his budget but the local committee or council wants X, Y and Z done, and the local commander says, “I don’t have a budget for that,” where do you go from there?
If someone says that they are really keen for a public inquiry to look at X, Y or Z, they do not expect to be told, “Okay, we might have a result for you in five or 10 years.”