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I point to the example of Aberdeenshire Council—I know it the best because it looks after my children—where the programme has been very successful, with buy-in from many different parties.
In fact, the then Minister for Communities, former MSP Wendy Alexander, hailed my future’s in Falkirk as the best regeneration scheme that she had ever seen.
If you just go with the money, how could we best ensure that what we currently get in Scotland is delivered after whatever is going to happen in the future happens?
I ask the minister to let me make some progress, please. I will do my best. It is not the existence of welfare conditionality that has caused controversy; rather, it is the way in which the approach has been implemented.