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Other interesting statistics were that you had 11,000 visitors to seven personal enterprise shows and that you distributed 24,000 business start-up packs.
In many areas like yours, the private sector—obviously you cannot speak for the private sector, except to the extent that your membership is from the private sector—expresses different views, as I said to the previous witnesses.
To some extent, you have highlighted the problem that I was trying to get at—perhaps I did not express the question particularly well—which was that some authorities have inherited a higher level of debt than others.
I am interested to see the proposals for an internet information portal for farmers, processors and so on. Internet sites are already being set up locally to connect producers with local shops and hotels.
Andrew George, speaking for the Liberal Democrats, pointed out that in an age of information technology a national institute could be spread round institutes and sites of scientific skills around the whole of the UK.
By flagging that up, I am speaking against a view that I have expressed and the Law Society's view; I am simply saying that the issue needs to be considered.