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I do not want to put you on the spot, and I am not sure how good your live tracking presently is in relation to the new round of business support, but about £375 million of support for business was announced in December.
What Malcolm has been explaining is that we have learned how to live with that legislation. We have recognised that although the route by which I got my job is unusual, my job is to be entirely accountable to the board in exactly the same way as any other chief executive would be accountable.
Let us say that an NHS board decides—this has been piloted recently, so it is a live example—that some form of digital transformation that will assist with its service delivery is absolutely vital.
That aspiration lies at the heart of the energy and commitment behind the establishment of this Parliament and enabling it to make a contribution not only to the lives of people in this country, but to the lives of those who live in other countries.
It seemed that quite a bit of the council’s budget is spent on flying the four members who live abroad to Dublin, where the council meets 12 times a year.