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We talk as though the drive for efficiencies in public services were something new, but many members of the committee will know from their experience in public services that it has been going on for many years.
It supplies 38 small butchers in central Scotland, many of which are struggling. The danger is that, if our small to medium-sized abattoirs disappear, we will be left only with the bigger abattoirs, many of which are tied to supermarkets.
People must understand the law; I accept the point that was made about the legal position.The Equal Opportunities Committee's report was important. Many things have been done, but many more things have to be done.
It will not be the future because it suffers from many of the problems that the nuclear industry faced: it is too big, the technology is too complicated and it produces too many side effects in terms of the waste that it produces.