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I am in a very similar position to my colleagues in Wales and, I think, Northern Ireland as well; certainly, the Welsh Government expressed the same views as the Scottish Government.
If there are issues to be learned from the engineering of this site, I hope that that will be reflected in future guidance that is fed through the planning process.
I have attended workshops at which smaller providers have expressed an interest in R100, but the aim is to build in a competitive bidding process, which Ofcom in principle agrees with.
During our investigation, we went to sites in the Borders where low-energy housing that had been constructed locally was not much more expensive than traditional housing.
Some landmarks are fragile—think of the appalling fate of Rosslyn chapel at the hands of Dan Brown—but our historic buildings and sites ought to be accessible to local communities and visitors alike, if their condition allows for it.
The protocol that is being discussed between our parliamentary liaison officials and the parliamentary officials goes well beyond this bill and this portfolio, so it is the officials who deal with cross-Government parliamentary relations who are leading on that.
On 9 February 2017 the First Minister wrote to the Prime Minister expressing disappointment at the recent decision, and urging the UK Government to reconsider.
We are getting support from Police Scotland, and the operation talla information, assurance and liaison—OpTICAL—group has been set up to get us access to data.