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If, in the short term, we can use those offers as best we can and, running parallel with that, identify some longer-term solutions, that is our way forward as a council.
It will take time for us to see the benefit of such actions, but all of them will increase the number of homes of the right type, in the right place, while making best use of the homes that we have.
Obviously, I did not know that you would ask about that specifically. It is probably best for me to lay that out to the chamber in the statement later today.
As a retired gardener—I put it no more sophisticatedly than that—I have been interested in hearing the descriptions of what some people get offered, and I am puzzled as to why people seem to think raised beds on crushed rubble are the best things in which to grow food. To get the best results, you want soil of reason...
As it stands, we do not have that power. My view is that the best way in which we can deliver a public energy agency company in Scotland that can do all those things is through Scotland being a normal independent country.
As the cabinet secretary has said, according to the best records that we have, 16 people were charged with the offence in Strathclyde, and the maximum fine that was received was £50.