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This may be a daft question, but is it easier to get funding for a new project—which you can give a wee twist, tuck and turn—than to get funding to sustain a project that is up and running?
I ask Laura Barjonas to clarify whether that will include spot checks. It will include site visits. Full-time audit staff have been employed to undertake those visits based on the feedback that they get once the learning is taking place.
Because he is in demand throughout the world, it is a challenge to get him to commit himself to a project; it is even more of a challenge to get him to carry out a project.
As Gil Paterson said, however, members often get enraged by totally evasive, often not even accurate answers to their questions and so lodge 10 more questions.
The Cabinet Secretary's letter also explains how the updated maximum levy amounts were arrived at, stating—
The proposed new maximum rates were submitted by QMS, to the Scottish Government.