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Let us stop revisiting that wretched part of the world.From the bottom of my heart, I wish Mike Rumbles the best of success. I believe that his battle is my battle.
Many people will visit the building and close attention is being paid to how best to accommodate the estimated 700,000 visitors a year and how best to use what we all accept is a very expensive building.
Nonetheless, I am happy to provide a finance perspective on the issues, although I suspect that that would be at a slightly later stage. Okay. The best route is to deal with this in correspondence.
I assume that you have done all the marketing and development properly, but what parallel work are you doing to ensure that Scottish research groups and institutions are best placed to bid successfully for work?
The figure is defined as risk, and that is what it is. The best information that we can give the committee is that it is likely that all or most of that sum will be needed.
Ministers should reflect on that and report to Parliament on how best to retain, support and encourage research staff and on managing and funding research.We will not retain some staff, but we benefit from the globalisation of research.