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Would that be what I understand as a prepayment of a future liability, in which a payment is made into a bank account to protect it from being used for other things?
That, again, contrasts with the United States, where the attitude would be that the person has achieved up to that point, can put that in the bank and can bring it back at some other point.
In response, the SPSO built its own bank of independent Scotland-based professional advisers and now has 20 internal advisers and 37 external advisers.
However, I think that it would be preferable for the start of the period to begin not on the date of royal assent but on the date of the opt-out system’s introduction.
We have established that the Government is doing it, but we have not got start and finish dates. That is right. Have we established that the Government is doing the research?
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-16521 by John Swinney on 16 August 2013, whether the Independent Expert Commission on Oil and Gas has been asked to consider the Lloyds Banking Group forecast from March 2013.