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Moreover, we want to continue the excellent work of the Govan Initiative, which would find it difficult to operate under the different parameters that would be established were Braehead to be transferred to Renfrewshire Council.I should also say that I do not recall being able to make representations on the boundary commission's proposals.
In your letter to us, Mr Russell, you stated that the whole increase in construction costs from the £62 million at handover to the current £108 million is for changes introduced after the transfer. What are the main changes that took place after the transfer that, in your opinion, resulted in extra costs?
In future, we can consider a diversity of funding, issues such as asset transfer and how we maximise the take-up of a number of funding streams—including the lottery—by community and voluntary sector organisations.
As time has gone on, there have been increasing concerns about resource transfer. The benefit of that first tranche of money was a reduction in in-patient bed days for the elderly, and there are concerns that there is insufficient resource transfer from the acute sector to the primary and social care sectors.