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More widely, if one looks at other small countries of comparable size to Scotland in the rest of the European Union, over the past 20 years, there have been extensive reforms to remove such technical and, it is thought, unnecessary requirements.
That process seems to have worked satisfactorily—I hope that it has from your point of view. You will be doing comparable things as regards the competences of the Scottish Parliament, and that heavy procedure would seem to be appropriate for such important issues.
The only other thing that I would say in that respect is that the calculation of the outturn, which is ultimately what is compared against the Scottish budget, leads to the reconciliation differences that we described earlier.
Those institutions, our students and young people and our research excellence have all disproportionately benefited from EU membership compared to their UK counterparts, and they will now be disproportionately harmed.
You have heard from witnesses about the structures that we adopt at the moment compared with the structures that we adopted in previous programmes relating to issues such as the audit regime and the level of paperwork required.
That the UK Government has short-changed our health service by £54.5 million, compared with its claimed level of consequentials in the summer, is an insult to our NHS and the people who depend on it.