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I acknowledge the effort that that has been for the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Constitution and Economy, his officials, the Finance Committee, the clerks and those who contributed to our deliberations by giving evidence.
Both co-chairs of the commission thank the committee for its invitation, and I should note that we are joined today by officials from COSLA and the Scottish Government who work together to provide the commission’s secretariat.
As Iain Gray said, the UK enshrined the 0.7 per cent commitment to overseas development aid in law when the International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Act 2015 received royal assent in March last year.
The report also recognises that development work is being done on different elements of our emergency services. I will direct my officials to make sure that there is now collaboration across the blue-light services in developing a Scotland-specific gazetteer that can be used right across our emergency services in Scotland.
I am very pleased to hear that the official Labour position is that we should recognise the reduction of costs as a requirement for the oil and gas industry.
As Kenny MacAskill suggested, the sense that in some official eyes such acts might individually appear to be trivial has led to the issue not being taken as seriously as it should be.