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Local authorities and all other authorities that are covered by the bill should be legally obliged to assist those who request information and perhaps to provide designated areas where people can be assisted to fill in the required forms.
There have been big cuts in training programmes across the board. There is to be a 40 per cent cut in the skillseekers programme in my area and there has been a major cut in the get ready for work programme.
Where the person to whom the findings relate is also an ex-officio member or employee member of a devolved public body, a copy of the findings may be sent to that body.I move amendment 18.
We have dealt with the procedures and acknowledged that they might not be assisting the progress of cases. The Fairchild case is paralysing all the cases.
That was acknowledged in a review of the social inclusion partnership programme, which we commissioned in 2002 from Cambridge Economic Policy Associates.
I have explained that that is the result of slippage in the capital programme. We, as the banker to Scottish Water, have to hold moneys until such time as the capital programme moves.