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We are looking to have flexibility so that we could still use the ballot papers with the original date on them. However, if we get into the territory of a much more extended period, the option will of course be there to change the date on the ballot paper, for example.
We are also having regard to the Scottish Government’s convention on last laying dates and the last laying dates in the Parliament’s standing orders, with a view to giving the Parliament as much time as possible to scrutinise instruments.
Local government finance circular 1/2021: settlement for 2021-2022. Retrieved from <a href="https://www.gov.scot/publications/local-government-finance-circular-1-2021-settlement-for-2021-2022/" target="_blank">https://www.gov.scot/publications/local-government-finance-circular-1-2021-settlement-for-2021-2022/</a> [accessed 1 February 2021].
On the workforce, I am quite impressed by the agency versus bank staff costs. Agency staff costs at £42.97 per hour are three times the cost of using bank staff.
The original proposal for the Firth of Forth MPA was for one large bank to be an MPA that would encompass the three smaller banks that the MPA covers now.
I think that it is just you and I, convener, who will recall that in the previous session we were in a similar position with an order on the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. At that time, I expressed some surprise.
Since we did not utilise this facility in 2019‑20, our budget plans therefore propose to bring forward some of the forecast growth from 2021‑22 and 2022‑23 and allocate £100 million more in 2020‑21 than is forecast to be collected in the pool.
As I explained earlier, we now have insurance and banking, and professional services—which are consultancy services around accounting—and auditing has just come on.