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We participate well, strongly and, I think, to our credit, in the cross-border programme—the Interreg IVA programme, which involves the west of Scotland, Northern Ireland and parts of Ireland.
In particular, this enables further provision for the application and approvals process for air weapon certificates, police permits, visitor permits, event permits or club approvals.
Overall, in 15 years we have welcomed more than 4 million visitors. That degree of accessibility is not unique in the democratic world, but it is very rare and pretty impressive.
Through its joint venture, Standard Life employs 6,500 people in China and has 26 offices, but there is now a moratorium on its growth and it is unable to open any more offices, for reasons that the Chinese Government has not quite explained yet.
We hope that an extension would be permitted, particularly if the Parliament were to express any concerns, but the issue is not entirely within our control.
The decision to proceed with the intervention was taken because of the amount of concern that had been expressed about the Scottish Government’s performance in that area.
The cost of not doing it is not always easy to assess, but it can be expressed not just in a monetary sense but in the loss of biodiversity and the other kinds of things that we are already talking about.