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It should be noted that planned re-profiling of Capital funding has an impact on year-to-year comparisons for both Capital and Total Funding – this is explored further in CoSLA’s January 2017 briefing on the Local Government settlement5CoSLA. (2017, January). MSP Briefing - January 2017. Retrieved from <a href="http://www.cosla.gov.uk/msp-briefing-january-2017" target="_blank">http://www.cosla.gov.uk/msp-briefing-january-2017</a> [accessed 4 December 2017].
There is a very real difference, however, between the role of an MSP and the impartial advice of an expert commissioner that helps to enhance and inform our advocacy role as MSPs.
I can see that, when clerks are not informed, that might be an oversight, but I get the impression from my inbox that MSPs often do not get 10 days’ notification either.