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I point members to the evidence that COSLA gave to the Finance and Public Administration Committee last week. It was explicitly asked what extra powers it would like, and its answer was that it did not have a set of proposals and that it does not think that it needs any powers beyond those that have been discussed.
There was also a lot of procedural enhancement activity. For example, opportunities for extra training were identified and then delivered by the PIRC to the professional standards department in Police Scotland.
Is it not the case that we would be adding an extra layer beyond that? For instance, we would be asking you to make some of those decisions if we gave you the extra powers that Jan Savage described.
I remember meeting an organisation for extra care housing. There are figures from the Office for National Statistics showing that, in the United Kingdom, there are about 15 million bedrooms sitting spare.
Someone could improve their EPC by installing a gas boiler, which would obviously not align with the net zero policy, so we propose to add extra metrics on the fabric efficiency of the building and on emissions.
In many cases, they become better for grazing, which incentivises that kind of land management going forward. Do we need extra codes in those situations? I do not know.
They are really valuable in supporting learning and supporting our young people in schools, but most pupil support assistants in Scotland work a 27.5-hour week, which means that there is no extra time at the end of the day to offer them training, which is all done through good will.
In addition, the contractor on the AWPR said that it ended up losing money because there were extra costs. Do you think that that put contractors off looking at the A9 again until you came up with this new contract?