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The Government helps to provide the assurance board process at level 4 that allows boards to have additional areas of support and to de-escalate when they are in a better position.
That is fundamentally different from the set-up under the Fédération Internationale de Football Association rules, whereby FIFA says, “Yes, the training club should be entitled to compensation, but that happens once the player has turned professional.”
The CITB course completion rates are up to 46 per cent higher than the rates of the combined colleges—I will call them de facto managing agents—which is a huge difference.
Tackling inflation does not always need to mean the de-scoping of projects. There are examples of local authorities being very innovative in their approach to delivering the same outcomes, but through slightly different and more cost-effective models.
I welcome Richard Lochhead, the Minister for Business and, from the Scottish Government, Euan Page, who is the head of UK frameworks, and Pieter van de Graaf, who is head of international trade flows and regulations.
That is what the voices of lived experience want to see, rather than sometimes being stuck in a cul de sac in which the spirit of legislation is not being lived up to.
The important things that can facilitate such an approach include, first of all, the infrastructure first idea, in which you use infrastructure to de-risk sites and make them attractive and much more viable.
There is always a temptation for public bodies—or any organisation, really—to set an earlier target date than is realistic so that they can seemingly address the issue and so that the risk de-escalates, the action is done and they can move on to the next thing.
Right—so we are talking about the balance between the de facto ability, or de jure ability in some cases, of the devolved institutions to diverge, and their being constrained to a UK-wide standard.