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The statistic that Mr Lockhart has cited has been taken out of context—wilfully or otherwise—and represents 26-week job outcomes after only 12 months of service delivery.
What about at ministerial level? One of the first visits—in fact, the first visit—that I made in my new role was to Leeds and later the same day to Glasgow, to meet Mr Mackay.
Policy makers need to weigh a lot of factors against each other when deciding what is the right way to get support to people so that it gets to those who need it.
A lot of our work has related to process, because the need to get the new agriculture bill drafted and put out to consultation has taken up the vast bulk of the resources of officials in the department.
You could measure compliance with standards that are already out there, or develop new standards. You do not have to measure performance on a statistic; you can measure compliance with a framework that supports the statistic that you want to get to.
That was the angle that I was coming from—there is a long list of projects that gets cut down. I thought that that was what you were getting at in your question.