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Following that meeting, I met East Ayrshire Council representatives, Willie Coffey MSP and Des Browne MP to identify immediate action and address the concerns.
That is a very good message—I refer to the fears that Gavin Brown expressed. The context is one in which current services will be continued or developed, and the BID process will bring additional quality and services on top of that.
The infrastructure secretary—whether Keith Brown or now Michael Matheson—and I would work more closely on the capital plan, recognising the infrastructure secretary’s role in infrastructure spend, but all cabinet secretaries have an interest in respect of their portfolio in the allocation that they get in terms of capital spend.
It includes Mark Thompson from the Judge business school at the University of Cambridge, and Alan Brown from the University of Surrey. The group’s role is to identify international best practice and to challenge us on whether we are following it, which they have done successfully.