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I have a supplementary question on Jim Brown's earlier comment about European organisations. It strikes me that many issues, particularly radiological problems, could well be dealt with at European level.
We have no intention of taking away the relevance and significance that marriage has for many people in our society. We are giving legal recognition to people who have been denied rights that are available to others.
It is for the electorate to decide.Do we need any more detail? The issue is to do with how many rules we impose on MSPs. We are setting high standards for MSPs already.
That means that the public spending for 2003-04 will now be flat, compared to 2002-03. Obviously, many of the efficiencies that are being put in place are designed to prepare the industry to be able to compete effectively against new entrants to the market.
We are trying to introduce the idea of third-party reporting. Many police forces are trying to put in place mechanisms that would allow other parties to be the recipients of reports of such crimes.
We could also indicate that it is our view that the committee could consider the matter if the review group leaves many aspects unanswered or a large number of people dissatisfied.
Later, we will see that the public felt that they were being informed rather than consulted. The many members of the public who have written to me or spoken to me have repeatedly made that point.
Rather than trying to tie it down to amounts of money, that probably achieves what Andrew is looking for, but does not go as far down as asking how many paper clips are going to be ordered this year.
They are mathematically correct, but the additional costs of detaining four patients in a setting that contains as many patients as does the state hospital at Carstairs is hardly the same as the cost per patient.