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In Edinburgh, we have a publicly owned bus company that is strategically important to the city and has been giving profits to it for the best part of 40 years, since the Transport Act 1985.
When it comes to spend, not just in island areas but in our rural economy as a whole, we cannot look at it purely on the basis of best value and economic value in its simplest sense.
The reason why it varies is that regrettably, sometimes, we lose permanent colleagues and the best short-term solution is to backfill with a contractor while we see whether we can get a permanent person back in.
As far as secondary legislation goes, I think that the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 is a model of good practice—it is not best practice, but it is good practice.
It is also ensuring that we can leverage funding from other areas of Government that it has expertise in, to get best value for both the money that we have and the money that we can source from other areas.
It is crucial to island people that those decisions are the best ones and that we get the best outcomes, and that they feel that they are part of the system and can influence the decisions that come to them.