I refer the minister to an e-mail of 24 October 2003, issued by Mr Bruce Rutherford, chair of the Waverley railway working party, which states:"Tomorrow … I'm through at the Scottish Executive … and I'll again be asking the Scottish Executive reps to increase their contribution, but we've been stuck on these levels of funding for a while now, so I'm not hopeful of reducing the LA contribution any further"—that is, from £15 million.