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The banks already have to do that work. The extra burden that we are putting on them is not only reporting that information up their chain, but reporting it to us.
Just after Covid, we invested in a small enterprise that basically made T-shirts, to start with. We ended up giving it two extra lines and the value of the business went up from a few thousand pounds to £40,000 or £50,000.
Normally, the counting days—the 40 days plus the 14 extra days that the Government gives—stop at recess and the recess dates are not counted towards those scrutiny days.
The citizens advice network, which is comprised of Citizens Advice Scotland, the Extra Help Unit and our 59 member bureaux, forms Scotland’s largest independent advice network.
One of the specific changes that was asked for involved building a couple of extra crew cabins for cadets, so that Caledonian MacBrayne could train more cadets.
The differential was about £1.3 billion, so we will see in the Scottish Government’s assessment where exactly that extra spend went? Yes. We anticipate that that will be the case.