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In some cases, we are setting standards that we expect to be established universally—for example, for rapid response teams in every local authority area in Scotland and for home maintenance programmes.
The specific instrument before us deals with additives, which are a difficult subject—they are not non-contentious, as some of the other instruments that have been laid before us are. On a fairly rapid reading, it seems that this instrument deals in part with areas such as gases being used for packaging—something for which the United Kingdom has been pressi...
I must use up a few of my seconds by declaring my registered interest, no longer as an associate of the Library Association, but as a member of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals.
We probably want to hear from an academic rather than a lawyer. There is no mention of school libraries in the bill. I would like the committee to look into that and take evidence on the fact that school libraries improve standards in schools.
Pay rates in the two smallest Executive NDPBs that we can find—the National Library of Scotland and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh—have suffered since they became NDPBs.
I accept that, but in the light of your answer, why cannot the contracts rather than just the full business cases be placed in the Parliament library? If there is nothing in the contracts that you are trying to hide, why cannot you be completely transparent and put a copy of the contract in the library for members of...