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Obviously, the desire is for HES to get its own house in order, but ultimately, what powers do you and the Scottish Government have to ensure that we get those changes?
However, our need for clarity on TTIP notwithstanding, we will continue to support companies through our enterprise networks to get involved in international business activity.
We are talking about people who have multiple and complex needs, so it is realistic to think that they might struggle to get to court, but that does not mean that we should not help them to get there.
The group in Scottish Enterprise that runs it is pretty active in getting us involved when it wants us to help it with companies in Scotland that are going to other places.
That might well be the case if the company concerned is a small or medium-sized company whose capacity is already stretched. The feedback that we get is that, quite often, people pick up leads through such activity.
The flood resilience strategy sets out a pretty clear trajectory of six core outcomes that will move us from where we are today—which is cycle 1 activity, by and large—to where we need to get to.
We will lose that independent voice for Scottish sport. When we want to get people into sport and we want to get people active, as we all say we do, we need a body like the SSA.