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We recommend that as part of the annual process local authorities be required to produce statements explaining significant changes in expenditure patterns.
Do members agree that I can contact the Scottish Government to ask for updates on the various reports that we have produced, which can then form part of the information in our legacy report?
Is that a sensible approach, given that it suggests that the health department, for example, is a substantial producer of carbon emissions simply because it has a larger workforce?
Amendment 86, in the name of Bill Wilson, is the only amendment in the group. The aim of the bill is to produce a more sustainable form of flood management.
This petition might well have raised another—how to transmit the electricity that is produced—on which it would be worth while for the committee to seek the views of the Scottish Government and the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets.
That is question number 1.Question number 2 is about what benefits prudential borrowing produces. Without going into the complexities, the short answer is that it produces only short-term headroom.