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Paragraph 5 of the committee's paper states:"The Committee agreed to write again to the Minister to raise concerns regarding the methodology used to calculate the benefit to cost ratio for a new rail link. Members also questioned whether the full social and socioeconomic benefits of the Dornoch rail link project to the north of Scotland had been included in...
Licensing boards have an obligation to protect their communities. When the new regulations kick in, we expect that the licensing boards will act swiftly, and that those who breach their responsibilities will forfeit their rights immediately.
As I am sure committee members are aware, as part of the new arrangement for funding local government, defined budgets no longer exist; they are rolled up into the single budget that a local authority receives.
The reason that we have recently seen it on websites is because we have begun to look at those and to explore the new medium as an investigatory tool, which we did not do before.
If there are no further comments on that issue, let us start on a new tack. To pick up on a point that Paul Chitnis made, it might be useful to have people's views on whether the Scottish moneys should be more strategic or more project based.