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That support should be particularly tailored to smaller firms, given the fact that they, as the Federation of Small Businesses advises, account for 99.3 per cent of all private sector businesses.
Under the new governance arrangements, the chief constable will be accountable to the Scottish police authority, the chair of which we appointed last month; in turn, the authority will be accountable to Scottish ministers, Parliament and so on.
Again, that would come down to accountability. At any point in time, the National Library of Scotland could be called to account for its corporate plan, which will set out its policy regarding what is threshold and what is incremental.
Because there was that commitment, there was also accountability. That is what has made that project work and continue to operate over a number of years.