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When we talk about resources, we must recognise that, if flood risk management is to work, money may need to be transferred between different budgets to ensure that it is available for the most cost-effective solutions to the flood risk management problem.
When we talk about child protection and welfare, we must consider how serious oral sex can be; for example, sexually transmitted infections can be transferred through oral sex. Alistair Stevenson talked about drawing lines in the sand.
When considering the various applications for test sites, we and our colleagues in the Scottish Government were clear that transferability would be a key component and that the test sites would have to be capable of being evaluated.
If, at some point in the future, the new building came into being, we would have to transfer staff and so on. I appreciate that the move would be over a very short distance, but it all introduces management issues.
In that flooding, 1,600 properties were affected. It cost £26 million to put the Perth flood prevention scheme in place, 50 per cent of which was provided by the then Scottish Executive.