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That urgency might be because there is a partner waiting who wants to get on with the project and who will not wait for the time it would take to get the funding.
We have good examples of national contracts being set that require local delivery so that we get the benefits of scale on the one hand and the guarantee of activity in our local economies on the other.
But 93 per cent of appointments are of people who do not have a political affiliation. I am sorry, but you must get the figures right. The question is about political activity over the previous five years only.