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Secondly, one occasionally finds part way through the process that a project has been altered—the best example being perhaps the new Aberdeen ring road, the line of which has been changed at significant additional cost.
I am not attacking local authorities for this, as this is new ground for most of them, but in almost every best-value audit so far—15 authorities have been audited—they have been criticised on both the equalities and the sustainable development issues.
Our scrutiny of that matter includes obtaining evidence of best practice from elsewhere. We will produce a report on that early in the new year.Fast-tracking, which I have mentioned, is one issue that we would like to be prioritised.
I am sure that in any changes that are made, VisitScotland will follow the best human resources practice, but discussions on the matter are going on and as far as I am aware have not yet reached a conclusion.
For example, we must ensure that those who impinge on bus lanes are prosecuted.We need a vision for the future, but we must also introduce relatively cheap and speedy short-term measures.
The following table presents the latest available information. It combines deaths from intentional self-harm with deaths from events of undetermined intent, as the majority of the latter are likely to have been suicides.