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If you switch funds in that way, you cannot make new purchases. It is not cheap to buy a Titian: purchases are by definition significant and involve large sums of money.
To back up what Annie Gunner said, the most onerous aspect is not visits. A lot of services that are provided to people in ordinary housing are not visitable services; people's houses are not establishments, so they do not get visited as such.
Not only do we have those new theatres, we have—as I have seen on all my visits to the hospital—very happy patients as a result of their interventions.
We are using focus groups to find out how people understand, appreciate or take to the new arrangements. The new approach, which is based on a phased move away from membership, offers marketing opportunities to the industry with a baseline buy-in that gives people more or less...
I declare an interest as a director of the finest exponents of Scottish football, Motherwell FC. I am not in favour of the Parliament bailing out Scottish football.