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Our target over the next three years—this year and the following two years—is to divert 600,000 tonnes of waste from landfill, which is equivalent to about 400,000 tonnes of carbon savings.
I am not saying that progress is not being made; it is just not easy to monitor.Will the implementation plan follow the single outcome agreements? Are councils themselves going to monitor how many boxes they have ticked?
In passing, I observe that Labour in Wales has followed exactly the same path as we have in Scotland.We are working with the Office of Fair Trading to develop guidance on bus competition.
We have a deliberately geographic focus, to the extent that we know where the opportunities are in the marketplace. Within that, we have decided to follow Scottish Enterprise's sectoral breakdown and to focus on areas such as food and drink and energy.