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The key document that the committee will be familiar with is the Scottish Government’s consolidated accounts, which gather up all the central Government and NHS spending.
Additionally, we recently announced that £3 million will go to bed and breakfasts that do not have business bank accounts, providing them with a vital lifeline.
That is important to us, because we need to grow the market sufficiently not only to take an increase in culling in Scotland but to take account of the much-increased supply that will come from England and Wales.
Thinking back to multiyear funding, I note that most cultural organisations will either be in the middle of, or approaching, the end of their audits. If you have a 31 March accounting year—not every organisation does, but a lot do—you have to file your accounts by 31 December.
When it comes to the mix between grant in aid and commercial, philanthropic and other sorts of funding, grant in aid accounts for 70 per cent of our funding.
However, moving to a more outcomes-based accountability model is important for us and CPPs going forward, in line with the original intention of the 2015 act around community empowerment.
We look at those things from different perspectives and we fully take into account the impacts of different organisations on things that we are driving forward.