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The correspondence that I sent to Mr Ellis was sent sooner than the date that Deputy Chief Constable Fitzpatrick refers to in terms of the briefing note.
Thinking through all those aspects has taken up a substantial amount of time to date, and they will have to be properly reflected in the mechanism or vehicle for effecting a transfer so that we can minimise the negative scenarios.
We have not yet absolutely identified a date. We do not want to commit to that date because, as Anne Bulford has explained, the approvals process could take up to six months.
But you are doing so based on data that seems to me to be rather out of date. Sheriff Principal Taylor did not think that a compensation culture of the kind that he thought existed in England existed in Scotland.
That must be true as the commission’s strategic vision is developed and then as we start implementing the work from the proposed date of 1 April. As has been clearly demonstrated, we are not representative of particular geographical areas or particular sectoral groups.
As I said, we have good communication with SATH at this point. We are trying to get a couple of dates in the diary—we are going back and forth on dates just now.