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We consider major capital investment when that will produce major savings through more effective energy controls, but we also engage with staff on smaller activities so that we make incremental changes as well as larger ones.Your suggestion about appealing to energy producers is interesting.
First, for the economy, as that would create and sustain jobs and create opportunities. We send our high-quality fruit produce, our national drink and many other products to the south.
When their creation is being considered, do civil servants produce an options paper so that ministers can reflect on how best to achieve what they are trying to achieve?
Yes. Would it be useful for us to produce a revised version of the financial memorandum that contains the new figures or would it be better for us just to provide supplementary information?
We asked Professor David Kerr and his group to consider the long-term health needs of the population and produce a national framework for service change and that is what they did.
Why should we believe that it should be to the detriment of anywhere else in Scotland if we are able to innovate and produce new manufacturing and other businesses?
We are not a Government department and do not have to go through the minister; therefore, when we produce a major report, it goes to the leaders of the other political parties at the same time as it goes to the minister.
I remember that when I lived in the Highlands many people lived in caravans on Skye.A series of factors have come together to produce a critical situation for parts of the crofting community.