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What leverage do you have over First and the other commercial service providers? None. We can give advice and produce documents. Some of us have campaigned in various roles for many years.
I also commissioned some research on prisoners' children. A report on that has been produced and I have had meetings to consider ways in which to take that forward.
As members are aware, the regulator's view was that the plan could be delivered for £1.5 billion less, without any deviation and while producing the same amounts to tackle development constraints, environmental quality and drinking water quality.
We take certain security measures in producing those documents, but no paper-based system is entirely fraud proof or foolproof, and there is always the possibility of some intervention.
On the adequacy of the financial memorandum and the stage of development that we had reached when it was produced, it is clear from the financial memorandum that there was more work to be done on the figures.
It set up ways in which services can be structured to produce appropriate responses to the differing levels of need that present themselves in the community and in local hospital and regional services.