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For other types of case, including family cases, legal aid may be granted to either the pursuer or defender and so it is not possible to say how much of the amounts recovered in these cases comes from defenders.
There is the owner of the pier, who may not be the operator of the pier; the operator may not be the shipping company, because the pier may be operated by an intermediary on behalf of the local authority, private body or trust that owns it.
Therefore, it is difficult to come up with a question that would capture what we would want to capture, which is information on how many people may require particular services and how many may face discrimination of a certain sort.
Given the time constraints, we might have to close the petition if we do not get responses that are detailed enough from the Government, but I think that we should have one more shy, convener, if I may say so. I am in the hands of the committee.
Was it really a good idea for eight people to be sent to a conference in Miami in May? NHS Education for Scotland does an important job for education and training across the health service in Scotland.