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You stressed that the bids will be assessed and that you will seek to give priority to those you consider to be the best. You also said that there needs to be a geographic and size spread.
We looked at sale possibilities and at possibilities for new partners, and I believe that we got the best deal after going through the various options.
Inevitably, they do not come in the best frame of mind.However, we recently carried out a survey of our clients, and among people whose programme had been mandatory we found that 50 per cent changed their view about the Wise Group once they had been on a programme.
At that point, the secondment arose.The question is perhaps best put by asking what our view is of the way in which Mr Manson has performed with the responsibilities that he has had since he moved.
Communities themselves need to be at the heart of that partnership, shaping the activities that best meet their needs. That grass-roots approach is a strength of the CRT.
That is fine, thank you.15:30 Probably the best example of that was when the high-alcohol minimum price was introduced here about four or five years ago for brand leaders in the category of beer that is 5.6 per cent alcohol and above.
We chose to do that from unrestricted resources because we thought that providing such support would be the best use of some funding that we actually control—a lot of our funding is directed by our donors.
We would soon end up with a complicated definition that covered half a page of A4. The best approach is the minimalist definition that the National Archives of Scotland has chosen.