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Despite the difficulties in catering for such a wide and differing audience, the flagship daily news programme “Lookaround” had one of the highest ratings of any BBC or ITV regional news programme in the United Kingdom.
We would choose not to proceed with the roll-out of universal credit and personal independence payments. Those programmes are mired in controversy and delay, and will cause misery to some of our most vulnerable citizens.
The Scottish Government has undertaken significant consultation and has a programme of significant engagement. The key point is that we are very different.
As I said, work that has been going on during the past few years reflects our prioritisation of the issue. We have a mass-digitisation programme—I was about to say, “a small mass-digitisation programme”.
The following table gives the number of increases in expenditure granted by the board in relation to advice and assistance and assistance by way of representation on civil matters in 2008-09, broken down by range of amount.
I thank the witnesses for their expertise and information, which will be of great assistance to us. We will pause while we prepare for today's final panel.