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We believe that, ultimately, the delivery should be transferred across to Revenue Scotland, which is accountable to the Scottish Government and to the Parliament.
Is the dynamic that happened at Halo missing from some of the other growth deals, and do you hope to see that sort of thinking being transferred to the development of growth deals elsewhere?
That would simply replicate the system that a number of other countries that use the single transferable vote system have in place to recognise that a single-member by-election for a multi-member ward often distorts the result and results in a number of people going without the representation that they chose at the election.
On skills, which Monica Lennon mentioned, we have a £11 million skills intervention package to support the transferability of the workforce into low-carbon areas.
NPF4 ensures that we have a very clear pathway, and we are continuing to discuss with Mr Bowie and other UK Government colleagues how transfer of powers around the 1989 act would allow us to have a much fuller package to ensure a smoother but balanced consenting regime.
We can also see the number of dogs that are registered each year to run with the GBGB, so the transfer of dogs from Ireland to the UK is evidenced rather than being anecdotal.