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For that reason, I ask the committee to agree today to invite Trevor Jones to appear before us and to flag up that we will ask him to appear on one of the two available dates in May. We can confirm the date nearer the time.
In my business, the management accounts had these headings: current spend; year to date spend; current budget; year to date budget; last year's figure; and percentage.
That would allow decisions to be taken in the next parliamentary session. We do not want groups and their bank accounts simply to go out of existence without the issue ever having been dealt with.
Set at £123 per annum, even with the current economic fragility of Scottish agriculture, that amount of money was not likely to break the bank. Furthermore, the charge was initiated in response to an EU directive to protect groundwater.