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My understanding—with the clerks' assistance, I should add—is that it is unclear whether OSCR's budget, which is about £4 million per annum, forms part of the budget of £6 million for parliamentary commissioners and ombudsmen.
We need first to decide what we want to do; we then need to consider a work programme and decide how to proceed. In a sense, that is what I meant when I spoke about the longer term.
One is that the Auditor General for Scotland has put on his work programme for the coming year a review of Historic Scotland's general performance and management.
However, the draft budget has somewhat pre-empted that.Civil engineers are also very willing to work with all stakeholders to assist the programme's delivery and to ensure best value for money.