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There are people who have responded to the Executive's consultation but who have not contacted the committee. I would not like to be seen to be weakening their cases by making representations only on behalf of people who have contacted us and made strong cases.
It concentrates more on Scottish Opera, but that does not in any way suggest that our contact with Scottish Ballet is any less or that we value it any less.
Our health service has more than 70 million patient contacts each year and 90 per cent of those are with the local general practitioner, nursing, physiotherapy and community pharmacy services.
You can either build a prison yourself, in which case you work out the total cost, or you can buy it on the market. We know what the market price is for the same quality of prison.
With the lower allowable level of toxins, the market would almost become white meat only. Anyone who buys scallops is aware of the possibility of buying the white meat of scallops imported from outside the European Union for very little money.
I confess that we do not pay an awful lot of attention to that. When we buy an asset, we know what it will cost, but the issue is what it will cost to maintain over its lifetime.