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That would mean that we would get responses to everything that we have raised but would not have to wrestle over whether we all agree on every dot and comma.
In procurement, for example, it is difficult to get all eight fire authorities to work together or to get authorities to devolve responsibility to another authority for delivering something by taking a lead.
The ultimate sanction will be through the Scottish ministers receiving the biennial report of activity. If that report was not available, it would be for ministers to intervene as they thought appropriate.
We have meetings with such officers who say that they would love to be able to do certain things or get others to do them, but that they cannot get to the board and cannot meet anybody.