Chamber and committees

Would a hotel prefer to have me not stay than to have me take a lower-priced room?

Is that your view, too, Ms Maclean?

Would you like to suggest one or two bodies that we could drop?

Ms Maclean?

Would you prefer it to be a national thing rather than a local thing?

That was a very full answer, which I appreciated and largely agreed with. Have we got to the detail of how the finances would work for that? If, for example, a young person has a care package in Shetland and then they go to university in Aberdeen, would the money move with them? Would that be up to individual councils or would it be so nationalised that it would all come out of a national pot?

I want to ask about one minor point, for clarity. In the annex to the letter of 16 June, figures were quoted for 2021-22 and 2022-23, but for 2023-24 it says “period 1”. Is that the first month or the first quarter?

If I wanted to find the annual figures, could I multiply the period 1 figures by 12, roughly?

Would that involve going down the private finance initiative route? We pay a lot more in the long run in that way—if the capital does not come from tax.

What is your view on the wider issue of a debate about whether we want Scotland to be a country with higher taxes and better public services or lower taxes and poorer public services?