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My job is to outline and take forward as robust an Edinburgh proposal as possible and feed that into the legislative process so that MSP colleagues and the Scottish Government can introduce legislation that will, hopefully, give us the powers to implement the levy.
We take very seriously those contacts from members of the public—we sometimes get them from MSPs and others—because they are an important way for us to keep our feelers out there about what is going on in an individual audited body.
I raised that issue with Malcolm Wright at the NHS Tayside briefing for MPs and MSPs a week past Friday; Bill Bowman and Liam Kerr both heard me raise it on the record.
If I can just clarify for the public, Mr Kerr, you are an MSP and therefore, according to my flowchart, a Scottish taxpayer, just like Scottish MPs and MEPs.
I declare an interest in that respect, as I am a Highlands and Islands MSP and my constituency has benefited disproportionately from European investment.
It should become the way in which we do things, because we are all challengeable on whether we are fulfilling our human rights obligations. Many MSPs and MPs have been active on the accommodation issue and have approached the Scottish Government to ask what more it can do.