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I find it more helpful to benchmark against other Governments and to compare, for example, our spending on the civil service proportionate to some measure of the volume of activity with their spending.
I have an example from a different sector of how the situation often perhaps feels to the general public.I am on a committee that is considering licensing laws in Scotland. One of our visits was to the police late on a Saturday night in Glasgow to look at public order issues.
The nationalists are fond of comparing Scotland to new states such as Estonia and Latvia—or whichever they are picking today—and saying that we should compare our growth to theirs, but that is ridiculous.