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However, there was no appetite for such a change among Scottish stakeholders and we were not persuaded that it would be in Scotland’s best interests, so we decided to retain our canals in the public sector.
The changes will have a major effect. I commend you for doing the best that you can, but some folk who would previously have directly passported will have to enter through eligibility criteria.
I might be reading you wrongly, but are you saying that it is better to look at best practice in community planning partnerships than to concentrate on data at this point?
In answer to an oral question from me on 5 September, the minister stated:“the ferry service in the northern isles replicates the best elements of what we had before and will further improve them.”
The policy of successive Administrations has been that those issues are best dealt with by the professionalism and expertise of the funding council, free from political interference.