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I will take the opportunity to raise an issue that I raised with the Scottish Government, which is that most executors of wills are laypeople—sometimes with a very small “l”. To what extent did the Scottish Law Commission consult laypeople who have experience of doing this—those who have no experience would have nothing much to say—to ensure that the law th...
Are we going to stick to the plan that we lay out? As a politician l have found that, all too often, people have put the plans that have been laid in a cupboard or have changed them a year later.
Will you comment on the study on tanning devices by Wang L in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, the study on the risk of malignant melanoma by Westerdahl and Masback, and the cancer statistics registrations for 1998 in England?
Is that agreed? It is. I agree with Linda Fabiani, but there are six organisations in Scotland that claim to represent businesses, so why do we not ask them all?
Indeed, that is proof of the maxim that devolution is a process, not an event. If Linda Fabiani checks, she will find that consequential increases came with those orders.
I wonder whether North East members such as me, who regularly cross the Forth en route to and from Edinburgh, will also be deemed to have an interest and therefore be excluded from the committee's membership.
Apart from its importance with regard to healthy living—I say to Bill Butler that I think I mentioned that en passant—we must also remember that it is a business.