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Obviously, as the Public Audit Committee, we are interested in the public accountability of the service, and the only way for us to achieve that is to have the data and that degree of transparency.
So, if I look at the 2019 accounts, I will see that the £184 million is, basically, a 60 per cent reduction in what ScotRail was receiving in 2019, on the basis that we have lost 40 per cent of passengers, according to the figures that we have.
The criteria for investment need to take fully into account safety issues, journey times and economic and community development, as well as the impact on the climate.
Our water supply is metered, which means that we pay the bills as they come in via the association accounts. All that has happened this year will come out in a fortnight’s time.
Ministers waffle on, as you put it, in physical meetings, too, so it really does not make a difference. They can also be held accountable in the virtual way of working.
As the bill progresses, my party will demand that its scope is widened to include all the aforementioned. An apology without serious accountability and compensation is not worthy of the name.
It is not readily possible to imagine a Norway where no one had heard of the Eidsvoll constitution, or a France in which not a soul had heard of the Bastille. Kenneth Gibson’s account of what was not taught in secondary school history, neither to his generation nor to mine, explains a lot.