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The Auditor General and Audit Scotland should be at the cutting edge of making best practice, instead of following it. Brian, I direct your attention to paragraph 8(v) on page 9 of the policy memorandum.
However, I repeat that I hope that we will not have to resort to committee members asking ordinary parliamentary written questions. Perhaps the Parliament could follow Westminster's example and not allow written questions to be lodged during the recess.
If such savings involve an authority's roads department, they will be longer-term revenue savings, rather than more immediate revenue savings that relate to the following year. However, they may be the most effective and efficient solution for the council involved.
Clearly, the overall investment strategy that the Executive and Communities Scotland follow must include a regeneration and house condition element as well as a housing shortage and affordability element.
In particular, I am concerned that, even if we had such a scheme, those students would just follow our other young people by, as Richard Lochhead mentioned, going south as soon as they have the opportunity to do so.