Chamber and committees

Are you saying that the CCC is looking at what spend is needed, rather than where the spend comes from?

Is there a difference in the costs involved for higher ranks and for lower ranks?

So does the SPF cover the costs for existing officers but not the costs for officers who have left?

I slightly disagree with the convener, because I agree with the idea of materiality and rounding things to £10,000 or so. That is much more realistic, and it is quite normal in accounting practice.

Yes. Given that we are looking at the bill, I suppose that, for me, what makes a figure material is how it compares with what is in the bill rather than with the whole budget. I just throw that in as a point of consideration, because the percentages that are shown in paragraph 30 are tiny. They would still be small enough if they were compared with the bill. I throw that in by way of comment.

The convener touched on the cumulative effect of having a number of issues that are under £10,000 that, together, would come to more than £10,000. Would it be possible to have a line in paragraph 33, where you show the different costs, for “sundry” or “miscellaneous”, or are you not comfortable having a figure for that?

I confess that this is not my area of expertise and I am perhaps not understanding some things. On land use, I get the point that we have 32 per cent of the UK landmass, but do the dramatic figures suggesting that we should be spending so much more per head than the UK take into account the state of the land as it currently is? Presumably, some land needs work done on it but some does not.

Should we expect more of a plan when we get the medium-term financial strategy later this year?

Do we know what kind of timescale are we talking about for that?

So the Government is committed to that.

The public share of investment in buildings is a figure of 43 per cent. The convener touched on that, but I am not sure that I understand that either. Is the 43 per cent a rough figure as to what the public sector commitment would be?