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Has the minister had or sought advice about whether a national scheme would offer not only those cost benefits, because you get cheaper unit costs for larger procurements, but certainty that children actually get personal access to a reusable source of water, which they can have all the time?
Nonetheless, it has been widely viewed as being a successful procurement process in as much as when you tried to get something but did not get it, you got the money back.
The kinds of cases that are coming to us are shifting. We are getting older people, but we are also getting lots of younger people too—we have seen a spike in the 16-to-15 age group, as well as the older age group.
Bilateral programmes are going on between the UK and France but, when enough bilateral activity is happening, that gets to a tipping point for having a framework.
Further to the work that the committee’s predecessor did on what became the Legal Writings (Counterparts and Delivery) (Scotland) Act 2015, officials conducted an anecdotal survey that suggested that that act was starting to change the previous requirements for extensive activity to get a document executed by all par...