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You said that 72 per cent of the population supported opt-out in 2008 and that more people might support it now. Do you have any up-to-date information on how many people would support opt-out?
Interestingly, according to Ofcom, to date 228 community radio licences have been issued in the UK and around 11 million people can now tune in to community stations across the UK.
The purpose of the report that we are discussing today was to review where we are now and to review the risks and challenges for the next few years up to the target date. I now invite Barbara Hurst to say a bit more about the content of the report.
The number of CHPs seems to change by the day, so Carolyn Smith may well have a more up-to-date picture of how many there currently are.I will highlight a number of key issues from the report.
I certainly agree that the colleges have played a tremendous role during the recession in providing opportunities, especially for young people, but others as well.
Mr Taylor put it best when he said that, 20 years or so ago, this city, in particular, was badly hit by many cutbacks and recession, and that he did not want us to return to those days.
By then, we will also have published Audit Scotland's annual report—it will come out before Parliament rises for the recess—which will contain as much information as we can provide about our activities and performance over the past year.We are continuing to work on some of the issues that have, perfectly understandably, been of concern to the commission.