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As set out in the commissioner’s report in 2017-18, the average response time to media requests was 19 days compared with 17 days to non-media requests.
We need to remember that we are doing very well compared to other countries. In the United States of America, the balance of spending is 90 per cent on acute care and 10 per cent on community care.
Ben Macpherson might have a view on that in terms of the resources for policing in Edinburgh compared with the resources for policing in the greater Glasgow area.
From my previous life as a conveyancing lawyer, I know that cases in which registration takes years are very much the exception, and usually have to do with particular circumstances such as difficulties with the Ordnance Survey map.
My advice in that respect is that you really have to be sure about the baseline with which you are comparing your target. For example, as far as peatland is concerned, you would need to be sure about the emissions that you would be comparing and what GWPs you could achieve for your particular target.
However, were there to be a Scottish OBR and a rest-of-the-UK OBR, the closer they were in what they did, the easier it would be for them to compare data and analysis and negotiate between themselves.