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As far as I am aware, there was no Executive source. My only concern is that, the following day, an article in The Herald suggested that someone might have issued an off-the-record statement.
If one considers the matter in the round, the debt advisory scheme is the crucial element. That is the element that—following the working group's approach—gives us a scheme that will take debt in Scotland into the 21st century.
He also suggests that other reasons for there being no differential implementation might be that we have a lack of resources, that we have to rely on Whitehall to give us a template to follow or that we might be under threat of litigation and enforcement proceedings.
There will probably be several points on which we will want to follow up and we will do that in writing once we have seen the Official Report of the meeting.
The figures are quite large, but I do not know whether they are as large as that. I think that, following the recent amalgamation, the board has 55 members, but I have trimmed the figure back to 50.
I am slightly surprised that there is any question that a sponsoring department would not ensure that a non-departmental public body followed openness, transparency, equal opportunities and all the things that you are talking about.
I was saying that, in our pre-planning for the elections, we must make a number of assumptions, one of which is that the boundaries for the new wards will follow the provisional proposals of the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland.