As others have also noted, the imminence of the election focuses minds on what that budget will deliver for Scotland. It could, on the one hand, be a new or refurbished school every week, shorter hospital waiting times, new health checks, new university and college buildings, new neighbourhood wardens, major infrastructure projects—including projects that are now under construction, such as the M74 extension, trams in Edinburgh and the Glasgow airport rail link—new water investment, new housing and so much more.