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Members indicated agreement. Okay. The clerks can consider dates. A possible date that has been flagged up is 6 May, but we will confirm to members whether evidence can be taken then as soon as we can.
I would like the Scottish Investment Bank to underwrite investments that individual generators cannot afford, thereby fast tracking investment in infrastructure, which can mean that generators can operate at their full output.
There are transfers of data that are critical for us to be able to continue to make payments: transfers of data about who we pay, to which bank account we make the payment, and what the recipient’s national insurance number is.
I saw a presentation from a company called Bartlett’s at an event that I attended with the Royal Bank of Scotland. That company demonstrated how the soil quality of individual fields is analysed in order to get the best yield of potatoes.
We have committed to providing £1 million over the next five years, and that has been matched by funding from the World Bank and the Wellcome Trust Liverpool.
Although we are not talking about huge numbers of people, we run into challenges when we apply the staffing tools, for example in our lack of resilience. Our bank nurses are already wholly employed by the board, so there is no spare capacity.