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Have you examined other areas, running similar pilots, to see what they are doing, how they have forged relationships and whether you can learn from their experience, thereby sharing best practice? Awareness of best practice is always an issue for us.
There will not be unlimited resources, so what do we absolutely need to do and how can we specify that in a way that makes best use of resources? Are there things that are, in a sense, bolt-ons or less necessary?
In that particular case, the issue was the creation of a food standards agency for Scotland.We should continually focus on finding the best way to get the right results for Scotland.