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Some of the evidence from the Carbon Trust shows that we benefit a bit more than we should from UK-wide and English funding and activity. Scotland gets better value than it should for the money that it puts in.
There is some private money as well—the Tom Hunter Foundation has been putting money into that activity—but part of the programme is to get local businesses to engage with schools.
Since then, we have been considering the Standards in Scotland's Schools etc Bill, but I would expect to get some comments back, which I will be happy to share with the committee when we get a response.
Is there a feeling that we should continue with that? We have looked at what we get from that and we believe that £15 million in relation to the kind of research and activity that we are required to carry out is adequate.
He says that the point of victim statements is to get information that is not currently getting into the public domain into court proceedings through the channel of the Crown.