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When you come back next year, I guarantee, on the basis of the figures that you produce year on year, that another 5,000 complaints will have been made.
Clearly, we are measuring ourselves against the notional figures or targets that we produce in Scotland. Do we benchmark how we are doing against overseas figures?
Notwithstanding what I said a moment ago about interpretation, are there any elements of the accounting process that are now producing—or are in danger of producing in future—errors or inaccuracies in the figures that we interpret?
Some grain prices have come back a bit.We must have an absolutely clear goal to produce more food here. We have a massive open opportunity in that 22 per cent of the food that is eaten here is not but could be produced here.
One issue is that there appears to be a reluctance on both sides to produce these common frameworks. My first question, to which I did not quite get an answer, was about the Scottish Government wanting to align Scotland with EU laws, without scrutiny.
In May, the Scottish Government produced the report, “Scotland’s Wellbeing—Delivering the National Outcomes”, which set out what is being done and what the baseline position is.