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In the construction industry, the majority of spend is on labour, which tends to live quite close to the building sites, so there is an ability to disperse that work throughout Scotland.
Authorities will be expected after that to allocate sites for development, and to include the sites in a proposed plan that is then independently examined at the end of the process.
When the issue has been discussed previously, it has usually been in relation to young people not falling prey to credit cards or other punitive credit facilities and ensuring that they understand what they are getting into with credit.
That is why I am so impressed that Mr Swinney has been able to deliver such projects against the backdrop of a 26 per cent cut to our capital budget—a very unwise cut.
In this discussion—I am sure that Mr McMahon will appreciate the way in which I express this point—we have to be mindful of the efficiency and the cost of operation of these services.