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I also thank the cabinet secretary and the Government bill team for the assistance with which they provided me in getting in place some of the language and other aspects of the amendments that we considered today.
I ask the question because you say in your letter that the preparation of the regulations "has been assisted by" the independent research that was carried out.
However, during the reconfiguration, perhaps we should embed an academic researcher to conduct contemporaneous research to assist in identifying key success factors and key hurdles.
I welcome the Minister for Community Safety, Fergus Ewing MSP, who is accompanied by various officials who will assist him in the course of this morning’s considerations.
However, the following week the same Mr Dimbleby allowed an extensive discussion on tuition fees in England, despite the programme being broadcast throughout the UK.
We will provide that information, which I hope will be of assistance. I think that Experian, in its evidence, supported the principles of the bill, for which we are grateful.
For example, the early intervention programme on literacy in West Dunbartonshire is based not on one narrow definition of functional literacy but on early intervention in the earliest years.