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I am a member of Unison and the Educational Institute of Scotland.I will report to the committee, as none of the other members who were on the visit is here. We visited the Dundee city partnership and Scottish Enterprise Fife on 5 November.
You heard compelling evidence from the New Zealand chief human rights commissioner on the point that there is a promotional aspect to the commission as well.
Are you asking whether it would have an impact on new deals? Yes. If you are using the PFI structure, there would certainly be an impact on new deals, because you would need to look at the credit quality of the new entity that was paying the unitary charge.
We do not, however, know whether the increase will continue. In the latest quarter, the number of sequestrations in Scotland showed an increase of 66 per cent on the comparable period in the previous year.
I am sorry, convener. I would have promoted you—I hope that the news from the past couple of days does not mean that your promotion is being put on ice.Historically, it is clear that benefits that must be claimed and that are therefore subject to means testing are less claimed...
The major decreases are in expenditure on communities programmes, down £35 million in real terms—I will come back to that—and in the unallocated capital modernisation fund, down £26 million in real terms. However, all is not as it seems.