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The Scottish Government’s approach has been to seek consensus and agree a vision that would bring the BBC up to date, make it more relevant to a devolved nation and bring its governance and delivery much closer to Scotland’s audiences.
The process is more iterative: they might contact the patient to ask them to phone to arrange a suitable appointment date. Some boards are doing that to an extent at the moment, but the numbers were not big enough to see any clear relationship between that and a reduction in did-not-attend rates.
We are not aware that any dry pellets have been spread in the area to date. We are aware of wet stockpiles and the wet slurry that is still being spread.
We should also take on board the fact that the petitioners have approached a number of lawyers to date. I know that the petitioners feel passionately that they have been let down.
You make a good point about trying to find a mechanism to allow us to communicate what we have done to date on securing competitive funding and what we will do going forward.
Shortly after that work was completed, more up-to-date information became available, in particular the revised Scottish health survey and some new crime data.