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However, witnesses have brought up questions such as how many businesses are co-operatives or social enterprises and how many people they employ, and we do not know that.
As the cabinet secretary explained, many of the companies are at the development expenditure stage, which is quite a risky stage, and they are looking to upscale.
That was very tough, and, at that time, we did not do as many forecasts, we did not have as broad a remit and the Government was not making as many decisions.
That is how the system used to work, but that has not happened for many years. Multiyear funding is important because it can help us with so many things, including reform and the ability to reach agreements on productivity and efficiency.