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I ask that because, in my days as a councillor, a member of staff would often come to me and say that they had never been listened to on a particular matter, and that we could improve things by doing X, Y and Z. It was often the case that that X, Y and Z made a huge difference to folks’ lives in terms of service deli...
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If we have something that is too holistic and too general, it becomes hard to make decisions based on doing X as opposed to Y or prioritising Z as opposed to A. We talked about comparative approaches earlier on; a number of countries in the world have set a kind of meso-level strategy—a bit of jargon, perhaps, but it means something that sits between the hi...
It is not only a case of carving out a designation and saying, “Okay, it is X, Y and Z.” For example, the process that we are going through with the care organisations very much involves considering the size and type of organisation.
It does not say in your consultation call for evidence that you will consider only X, Y and Z because of the resource capacity in the marine directorate.
Why should I have to declare, on behalf of my shoot, that we will be doing X, Y and Z today when there is no evidence whatever to suggest that we have ever been on the wrong side of the law?
What would really help is for the political parties to stop promising 1,000 more X, Y and Z in their manifestos. We have reported—ad nauseam—on countless examples where the data on implementation of public policy has not been strong enough.
I think that the Treasury indicates to the OBR the kind of measures that it is thinking about, and the OBR will bounce back to it that it needs information on X,Y and Z in order to be able to scrutinise them.