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Oddly enough, that leads me to think that you would be best to go to somewhere such as Clackmannanshire, which is the smallest mainland council and happens to be in my constituency, or to Inverclyde or Midlothian, which are very small councils.
The chief executive of the SPPA, as the accountable officer answerable to the Parliament, will always be best placed to answer detailed questions on the issue.
However, the police need to work on the basis of the best evidence that they have. Crucially, when police deploy the live facial recognition technology, they should review the outcomes as time goes on, so that we can look at how effective the technology becomes.
The programme for government therefore includes a commitment to develop a national pathway so that we can ensure that best practice in relation to treatment is followed across the country.
There is a lot in that question; between us, we will do our best to answer it. In paragraph 125, we say that the Scottish Government will take over executive competence for all the devolved benefits no later than 1 April 2020, next year.
The simplistic answer is that, if you have random noise and something moving randomly, the best estimate will take the average. However, on a year-by-year basis, guessing or forecasting the noise that is in the model will be difficult.