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Any correspondence that I receive is given to Lynn; that is how it finds its way on to the agenda. If members get letters that they think will interest the committee, they should put them into the system.
All that I can do is refer members back to the financial memorandum and to the policy intent about what we mean by a CSP and who should get one. Youngsters in the latest document from COSLA, for example, are certainly not covered.
Perhaps one advantage of starting at the bottom of the table is that the convener gets the last word. I had not fully appreciated that fact when I began.
There is an interesting sequence of events there. There are new headquarters, a big budget overrun and, suddenly, everything is going to get rationalised and transferred to Exeter to make cost savings.
Local authorities, especially the island ones, link up closely with the agriculture industry and we get their views through that. The committee was set up in 1994, but we established a sub-group for the new scheme.