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Motion moved, That the Infrastructure and Capital Investment Committee recommends that the Procurement (Scotland) Regulations 2016 draft be approved.—Keith Brown. Motion agreed to. That concludes consideration of the affirmative instrument.
Creating such an office for the island could stop that silo mentality and connect all areas together. Thank you. Gavin Brown, is there anything that you wish to add?
The next person to ask a question is Jean Urquhart, who will be followed by Gavin Brown. I thank both witnesses for the discussion that we have had so far, which has been fascinating.
We must remember that the greatest threat to pensions in the past decade started with Gordon Brown’s stealth attack and has continued with attacks on, in particular, public sector pensions south of the border.
For example, we had the Fife episode involving someone accessing Gordon Brown’s records. We have only a retrospective system, and we do not yet have an audit trail that individual patients can access to check who is accessing their data.
The model that applied when the Singer Corporation and John Brown’s shipyard shut was that you had to pump in the capital—build the field of dreams and they will come.