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Convener, I do not want to speak for the committee, but it would be interesting to see what has been on the agenda at those meetings and what actions have been taken. My final question is about buy-in and the change of culture. Many of the relevant bodies in the bill fall under other ministers’ portfolios.
I am not sure where people will get that money from or that they will buy into it if they do not see the benefits, which might result in only a small saving.
If they changed their business by, say, taking on more livestock or buying another property, such that it moved them out of compliance, that was something that they would have to be aware of at the time.
What the strategy refresh is trying to do is look at the role of culture across all of those sectors, and to empower local authorities to take the risk in terms of buying in different ways of commissioning services to look at what can enhance educational cultural access for those children.
I am sure that there will be an impact, because many of our food and drink producers—this does not apply exclusively to them, but let us take them as an example—vaunt very highly the high standards to which Scottish produce is produced. That of itself is a reason to buy the product in the face of products from elsewhere that are cheaper but inferior in term...
I meet CHAT quite regularly, and in July, it raised the issue of community participation with me. The group had contacted NHS Highland, but the health board refused to recognise it as a constituted community-controlled body.
Police Scotland is pursuing every single report of spiking and is in daily contact with my officials so that we can better understand the prevalence of the activity.