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It must help people to understand what they are entitled to and how to get it. The distribution formula for funding is wrong—that is a fact of life—and we have to get it right.
The truth is that there have been no such changes.I support the bill whereas other members do not, but that is not the issue—the issue is jealously guarding the right of members to introduce bills. The Parliament gets strength from the opportunity that exists for individual members to make proposals that can be scrutinised and discussed.
We are taking a balanced scorecard approach with some quantitative measures—the speed of handling cases is a simple example—and some qualitative measures, such as whether victims and witnesses perceive that they are getting better treatment from the courts.
However, given the timescale and the fact that the stage 3 debate is on Thursday, the best approach is, as Christine May rightly suggests, to question the minister in the debate to see whether we can get an explanation of the Executive's approach.
Will the minister put somebody competent in charge of that to push the issue forward? It is rare that we get a job advert and an application for the job in the same question.