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Does the member accept that the Lord Advocate has, indeed, written to the Scotland Bill Committee about this very subject in a letter dated 26 October? Certainly, I am aware that the letter was written on 26 October.
I hope that I have described that clearly.Another issue around value for money in resource transfer—again, I think that this is factually correct—is that the 1995 circular that created resource transfer envisaged that it would be transferred in the longer term to local authori...
That has made such a difference that in some cases the parent has asked for those possessions to be put in their coffin with them when they die. We cannot overvalue the difference that that makes to the whole family.
The committee might also want to consider the impact on the economy of knowledge transfer, and the role of colleges in knowledge transfer, specifically in relation to the small business sector.
We need to make the process meaningful and we need to think about what power we can transfer to people and how easy we can make it for such a transfer of power to happen.