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Members indicated agreement.Pre-budget Scrutiny 2020-21 Pre-budget Scrutiny 2020-21 Under agenda item 2, as part of the committee’s pre-budget scrutiny, we will take evidence from the Scottish Fiscal Commission on its role and its forecast for Scottish social security spend.
It would not be right to suggest that we do not have two differing positions at this moment, because we do, but I still consider that the debate and the discussion that take place in this Parliament are important. I do not want to pre-empt that; that is not my decision.
The effect of a pre-action protocol is that it front-loads the whole process, so it should become apparent at a very early stage if a case does not have merit.
So we have a real problem to solve. My question is on the issue of pre-signed signature pages. In England, it has been suggested that the application of a pre-signed signature page to a different contractual document could increase the risk of fraud.