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I hope that my partners in the Liberal Democrats will allow me to say one thing about the Prime Minister. He has won almost as many general elections as Ms Sturgeon has managed to lose constituency elections.
Like other committee members, I am a member of several—perhaps too many—cross-party groups, but I have found that it is impossible to withdraw membership.
I rather suspect that, if she had had a junior minister in the first place, many of the criticisms of overload and overwork would not have been made and the whole episode would have been more of a success story for everyone.
In partnership with the police and the violence reduction unit, we have taken concerted action to stamp out the blades menace that has claimed too many lives and scarred too many people in Scotland.
The committee made it pretty clear that although we did not want to hold up the regulations, which are not controversial, they contained so many errors that they needed to be redrafted.
It is not of any great significance to the policy intention of the regulations, but I am curious to know how many students will be affected. Unless I missed it, no figure was given in the explanatory note.