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I am learning a lot about Scotland as I visit here more often. As I said earlier, you have a lot of good things going on, but we do not seem even to be utilising the technologies that exist already.
I am surprised that members are not listening more closely because, if they do, they will learn that, on my visit to Stornoway, I found that the authorities, cunningly, do not bother to apply to the court for an ASBO.
The deficiencies having been cleared up, Mr O'Donnell will have a set of figures that are directly comparable with last year's figures. I hope that that will clear up the statistics point.
I should hope so; she is the officer for that in the council. Are the numbers up or down compared with two years ago? I cannot tell you that because we do not collect that information—the police would do that.
Such an operating model would involve councils being assessed against comparator councils and health boards being assessed against comparator health boards.
It may be very important to understand the fiscal consequences of those alternative futures. That is a comparatively straightforward example of a variation in assumptions.