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Aberdeen Heat and Power (AHP) said—
…the requirement to produce building assessment reports should not be too onerous, especially if the data required…is essentially the same as the data required to produce an EPC.iWritten submission, AHP.
With £1.1 billion of spend, including police grant, it is essential to scrutinise the reality of the cabinet secretary’s policy assumptions. Will he now produce the table on specific grant funding?
It points to the need for an external validation process to be developed and applied to the data that the service produces before performance information is reported to the Scottish Government.
You state:"More than 80 groups from minority communities are informed of every appointment vacancy, but there is no evidence that this produces any applications."There is no evidence of applications, let alone of appointments.
Labour seems to have been content to grab a headline on the issue rather than produce a reasonable and costed manifesto that can make progress for the people of Scotland.