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Given that we are unable to put a cost on people’s lives, the Scottish Government provided its best estimate, and we—myself, Diane Barr and the bill team—looked at that as a best estimate.
You heard the question that I asked the previous witnesses about best practice in Europe. Can you identify an example of best practice in which you see rail infrastructure as being top of the tree?
We fund the Scottish officer in COSLA to look at best practice across the board for the Scottish welfare fund to try to get the consistency and the sharing of best practice that we are looking for.
I am also interested in cost efficiency, which is a bit of a generic term. Are we looking at best value or added value? Have you decoupled added value from best value?
It is important that planning happens at the local level to ensure that the mixed market that COSLA supports can be best utilised. We argue that local authorities are best placed to do just that.
As a child who had to use Aberdeenshire buses for his entire teenage life, he says that one of the best things about studying in Edinburgh is the buses.