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Glasgow has had a very good scheme, but all these schemes are under pressure because of finance—I hate to keep coming back to that but, although we may want to do these things, the money may not be available.
If we are losing that number of staff—voluntarily, remember—we have to take cognisance of what impact that may have on service delivery. There may or may not be a difference between an early retirement scheme and an outright redundancy scheme—the two may be intertwined.