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Colette McGarva made a point about best practice and good practice. How is that shared across local authorities and what evidence have we got about how other organisations—public bodies—that are also covered by this legislation engage with communities and share best practice or good practice?
I think that our public appointments system is designed to pick the best people who apply, and the real challenge is to get the best people to put their names forward in the first place.
In the second half of part 1 and some of the examples that we have highlighted, we have tried to do the best we can to get at exactly the point that you have made.
I take a different view on effective scrutiny. I think that scrutiny is best served by having the best and most up-to-date position and by knowing far more than we know before the autumn statement.