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I have heard concerns from various stakeholders about some of the challenges around attracting private investment into the sector and having the right investment structures in place. Keith Brown mentions one of those challenges, which is around pension funds.
Before us are two Scottish Government officials: Jenny Brough, team leader in the local government finance and local taxation unit, and Colin Brown, senior principal legal officer.
We can then consider its findings and continue from there. From Mr Browning’s letter on the Scottish Government’s behalf, I was not clear on whether the Scottish Government has detailed any timetable for any review that it might initiate.
Any underspend in the money for which the Scottish Government is responsible carries forward into this year to be fully spent on programmes of the type that Gavin Brown is talking about. Not a single penny of that money is lost to what the Scottish Government seeks to support.
I also pointed out to the Leveson inquiry that that is not in the same league as the Labour Party of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. In fact, over Gordon Brown’s brief period as prime minister, he managed some 17 meetings with Rupert Murdoch.