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Following our acceptance of the proposed policy, MSPs should issue, as employers, guidance to their staff that covers them as employees. That would be sensible. Something could be put in employee contracts and in the booklet that is given to staff when we use the Parliament's contracting service.
We have not highlighted each instance where this is the case, but we will continue to work jointly with the Scottish Government, the Welsh Government and the Northern Ireland Executive through the Common Frameworks programme in the development of policy proposals where appropriate.
The report was based on a conversation between two employees of Beattie Media and an employee of The Observer who was posing as a representative of clients who were seeking public relations and lobbying assistance.
That is also the case with drug-assisted rapes. DCI Sturman's report on drug-assisted sexual assault was produced after interviews with 109 female and 14 male drug-rape victims.
The Dutch programme has not yet fully reported, we have not yet got the long-term follow-up on the Swiss programme, and the German programme is in the early stages of development.
As that is happening at Executive level, I do not see why ministers cannot give the same assistance at parliamentary level. That assistance is important in the early years of Parliament and I hope that ministers would be willing to provide it.
The bigger problem is the scale of the objective 1 programme in Wales—it is the fact that the programme covers some two thirds of the population and two thirds of the area of Wales.