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In the report, you talk about commercial services and express concern that councils must be careful about getting into that area, in relation to staff, skills and risk.
On the latter part of Liz Smith’s question—which was, as ever, diplomatically expressed—about why the model is not working, we have to look at a longer-term period of history to come to conclusions and see why we are where we are.
I move amendment S5M-09378.1, to insert at end: “condemns the loss of local accountability, and notes and expresses its gratitude for the hard work of frontline officers and staff.” 15:01 I am pleased to take part in today’s debate.
They would constantly be paying out, so that is not a realistic scenario, either. Okay. Concern was expressed in some of the submissions about an increase in fraudulent claims—that there is a fraudster’s charter.
That announcement was in response to audiences who have expressed the view that they want to see more of their lives reflected on BBC Scotland in programmes such as “The River”, which is based in the Scottish Borders.
Mr Rumbles would perhaps be better served by expressing his point of view in the fashion in which Sir Robert Smith expressed his view to me in a helpful letter that I received from him in the past couple of days.