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We met at university through a shared love of hockey, both on and off the pitch, although latterly it was more fun off the pitch because of injuries and the like.
Only yesterday, in Aberdeen, I announced that the next six new full-size 3Gpitches will be in Aberdeen, Dundee, Cumnock, Troon, Paisley and Linlithgow.
One that I hope to accelerate in the course of next year, which is included in our pitch for budget, is about the remote provision of witness evidence.
The sector is on a journey to improve, but the guidance and the processes that we have often pitch us against each other rather than helping us to collaborate.
How does Creative Scotland, which must obviously get its budget from the Government as well, ensure that it is making that pitch for various things? As a sidebar to that—this will be my last question—when we are talking about the disconnect between local authority funding and national funding, is it not Creative Scotland that is meant to be in that middle ...
If we go back to the 1970s, when we switched to natural gas from the North Sea, it was pitched as a national mission and an industrial policy as much as an energy policy for the consumer.
The learning from the first three years of ESS’s existence will play into deciding whether that was pitched right. The improvement report that we produced on local authorities’ duties to report on climate change is a good example.
I will start by offering a few comments, after which I will ask Steve Carson to pitch in. We are proud of the fact that it is a record year for BBC spend in Scotland: £262 million, against last year’s figure of £241 million.