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The other point was a suggestion from his namesake at the Royal Bank of Scotland—perhaps Stephen Boyd does not often agree with him—who suggested— You are talking about Stephen Boyle.
Part of the objective of the Public Health Scotland work is to identify not only patients who were discharged who had had a positive Covid test, but the date on which they had that test. That information determines whether they were infectious at the point of discharge.
As of last week, eight of 15 authorities in Scotland had confirmed their data test date. We are in the process of working with another six authorities to confirm their dates, which should be confirmed in the next few days.
I will highlight one other point, of which I am sure the committee is well aware. A lot of the dates can be quite confusing, because everything is, in effect, happening two years after the event.
The Government does intend to commence with effect from that date in relation to Crown land the powers of entry for a purpose specified in section 91(1) and (2)(a) and (l) in section 93(2), so far as it applies where entry is taken for any such purpose.
Mr Stewart, you spoke about local authorities and housing associations being reliant on their rental income to refurbish homes, to invest and to give banks assurances when they borrow money for new housing stock.