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There is the discount rate, and the award of damages is calculated at a certain point. How awards are utilised thereafter varies, however. 11:15 I will briefly conclude on this point.
A lot has been said about vision and longer-term objectives and so on, but that has not yet translated into thinking “If we start at point A in 2018 or 2017, how do we get ourselves to point B by 2021 or to point C by 2024?”.
There is a larger case to be made: a circular economy, which is the point of this, is one that does not have waste and which is efficient, so that all our resources are put to best use.
Crown Estate Scotland has provided other revenue funding to support early-stage projects or facilitate research in that space. I am not the best person to answer that question, but I will refer to other colleagues and come back to the committee on that point.
I will step back from the question for a second, but I will do my best to cover that point. We agree on your point about the financial sustainability of the Scottish Police Authority, which reflects the challenge to the overall spending of Police Scotland.
The point was raised at the committee two weeks ago, and I wrote to the committee outlining the modelling that we undertook and pointing to the Nottingham example.