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The investment included supporting the company to target opportunities in blue light and civilian markets. Through that funding, Leonardo developed a radar system for launch by the Norwegian search and rescue service.
Two of those—the audit reports for the Scottish consolidated fund and Skills Development Scotland—were just three days late due to timing difficulties with the audit committees and the sign-off of the audits themselves, so the delays were really not significant in any way.
We have heard about some of the workforce challenges. No one wants to minimise those, but the proposals that have come to the committee would help with workforce pressures and future workforce planning.
That is out of step with how the SPCB funds other independent organisations, where a budget is agreed and the SPCB is not under any obligation to fund expenditure above that budget.
In addition, the five principles were considered and decided on because of consultation with the stakeholder take-up reference group and the learning that was gained through the projects that were funded through the benefit take-up and income maximisation funds.
In my portfolio, we have provided £862,000 of funding to Inspiring Scotland to support eight local authorities across Scotland to develop and increase access to the outdoors as a focus of the expansion of funded early learning and childcare.