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On evidence that was placed on record by Universities Scotland, on the basis of a report that it produced. Will the member give way? I am sorry; I do not have much time.
A lot of academic research has been done on visual communication. For example, Desmond Morris produced a wonderful book called “Manwatching: A Field Guide to Human Behaviour”, on how we communicate visually.
Most of us who have dealt with such generic consultants would say that they come in, pick your brains and produce a report on the back of that, or say, “Here’s one we produced earlier.
The reason why is simple: they go all the way down the road of producing the halting sites that we all want them to produce, but then the democratic process stops it because local councillors are unable to face up to the responsibility of delivering in the face of local opposition.
If we are interested in what councils produce by way of output in their commissioning strategy, then of course—as we said in our submission—we welcome many of the report’s findings and we want to engage with them.