Chamber and committees

It improves the quality of the return, not the quantity.

I have a quick question for clarification. In paragraph 15, you indicate that 42 per cent of overall staff costs relate to temporary staff. The explanation that is given for that is that those staff are needed for the census, which must be a major part, and for specialist IT projects. I am interested in what the split is between the two.

For a place such as Glasgow, do we have any information about whether the return rate for particular ethnic groups was lower than for others? It is quite important that we get that outreach.

You are saying that the data exists; it is just that it is not available to you at the moment.

Thank you.

Excellent. I will ask the first question on the budget revision. The commission is aware that non-cash pension accounting arrangements have arisen in previous years. On the Lothian Pension Fund, what discussions have you had with the Scottish Government to confirm that previously agreed arrangements with HM Treasury are still in place and will meet this pension adjustment?

It is not a huge contingency, given all the risks out there. Mark Ruskell has a supplementary question.

I will bring in Richard Leonard, who has a supplementary question.

Do any other members have any questions that they would like to ask?

I have a couple of questions to probably wind up our discussion. On page 9, paragraph 31, you say:

“Specific areas of our administrative budget have no inflation applied”.

Which areas are those?