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There are two distinct ways in which those developments affect the Scottish budget and the individual portfolios within it.The first concerns the effect of the rapid growth in energy and commodity prices.
The single biggest obstacle is the failure to make rapid progress on the development of a funding mechanism that will allow those projects to be realised.
With fuel consumption accelerating due to rapid economic growth—particularly in India in China—and continued population growth, it is likely that oil and gas reserves will be denuded much faster than was thought only a few years ago.
I am meeting with university principals tomorrow to work together with the sector to achieve rapid progress towards where we think the sector should be.
They are two very different funding streams and two different kinds of organisations with different resources. The kind of liaison that Andrew Field is talking about is exemplified in East Lothian, where the local housing association has borrowed through the local authority to fund the development programme in its area.
Have you noticed the impact of cultural co-ordinators in local authorities, in the context of liaison with you and with small theatre companies, for example?