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We can lever development gain from physical resources, such as football pitches, and we should remember that transport is the life-blood of an area in getting people moving around.
However, as Garry Coutts said, it would be difficult to define the minimum standard. If the level were pitched at just below tolerable standard, would that make a significant difference to the existing situation?
That is all that I can say in answer to the member's question, but Graham Berry may want to pitch in. The confidence that we have at the moment is built on the forward plan of which we have received early drafts.
By free-play areas, I mean places to which children can go to play football without filling in a form, applying to the local council to use the pitch or having to pay at the door as they go into a covered facility.
If we are supposed to accept that the framework of macro-economic policy and major social welfare policies are set by the Westminster Parliament, we must understand and be aware of the bargaining pitch and negotiating power of the First Minister.
If it did that, the Executive might find that it has pitched its estimate rather low. The Executive claims to have arrived at the figure through consultation with Scottish Homes.
Elaine Murray, Mike Russell and Euan Robson, among others, made their pitch. The name of the Scottish UFI—SUFI, as it has been called all day—is under consideration and will change in due course.
We keep in contact with universities, and recently we said to the University of Edinburgh that we were to pitch for an R and D project. The university said that, coincidentally, it had funding to do research on the same issue.
Depending on the level at which the SST or a reformed council tax was pitched, people on middle incomes would be on the margins of either gaining or losing as a result of the decision between a reformed council tax or the SST.