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Our boards are increasingly looking to share best practice and good experience, which includes taking on board the lessons from and experience of NHS Highland.
There is already good practice in sharing best practice, and we regularly take into account feedback from surveys and through the formal appointments process.
It is important to realise that we need private investment in the networks, and at some scale. Heat networks work best when they operate at scale, and they benefit from economies of scale.
We are trying to ensure that we can resource our work in flexible ways in order to make best use of those skills to reflect the particular circumstances and risks that we see in each of the audited bodies.
However, as always, the debates over how we may best improve our society and the lives of our constituents are constrained by the Scottish Parliament’s lack of powers.
I am of course ready to answer questions on those reports to the best of my ability. I also have senior members of my team here to address any points of detail.
I can assure the committee that we will work to get the best deal for the taxpayer. That is the current approach of the Prestwick airport management team.
They have done a power of work on the issue, but cannot be with us, unfortunately. They have our best wishes. Before we move to questions, perhaps one of our witnesses would like to make some brief opening observations.