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Item 4 is consideration of evidence on the draft climate change plan; item 5 is consideration of a draft letter to the Scottish Government on pre-budget scrutiny; and item 6 is consideration of our work programme.
My view was that doing so could have risked influencing the general election and would have been contrary to the pre-election guidance and, therefore, would have been the wrong thing to do.
I highlight that the industry is doing as much as it possibly can to take that forward. You have probably pre-empted some of Emma Roddick’s next question, but I will bring her back in.
You are right, though; internationally speaking, we are perhaps disproportionate in the amount that we fund concessionary fares and free bus travel. I do not want to pre-empt the fair fares review, but I can tell you that the amount is considerable.
Similarly, there is UCL Partners in London, and Northern Gritstone involves movement in the same general area, with pre-investment before people look to invest in university innovation.
There would have been pockets of such activity in the pre-national service. We have been able to harness that as a national service, and to put real national direction behind it and have cultural change in the service.
Some want to be witnesses, but I agree with Amanda Masson that evidence must be taken quickly and in a safe place, hence the move to pre-recorded evidence and the barnahus approach.