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Sorry to interrupt. I understand that, but I am trying to understand the basis for your concern that that might change. Surely there could also be potential for a positive outcome. The overarching review has been triggered by your lack of fiscal flexibilities. From your submission, I am not clear why you are concerned or what evidence you are offering to back up that concern. Has there been any indication from the Government that that is the intended way to go? I am not clear about that.

That would be helpful, and I know that you will carefully qualify any data that you provide.

Are you aware of any overlap of outcomes that might lend themselves to consideration for streamlining from an audit perspective? Perhaps I should ask when you last audited the 129 bodies’ effectiveness across the board.

Does either Charlotte Barbour or the Auditor General have anything to add?

It will be interesting.

I appreciate that it is difficult.

Susan Murray, you made a comment, with which I agree strongly, about there being

“greater potential for using procurement as a tool to drive change.”

You make a broad suggestion in your submission, but will you give us a wee bit more flavour of your thinking? You simply mention

“standard environmental and social policy criteria”.

Will you give us a few more examples? The suggestion interests me.

Arguably, then, you are suggesting that there should be more transparency and that there needs to be linkage to various outcomes.

I do not know whether the Auditor General wants to come in on that point. It strikes me as an interesting area.

So it is not actually your customers who have said this. You used the term “customers”, but it is a committee of the Law Society that has suggested that approach rather than the customers at the end of the chain.

But surely some customers will not know that there is a problem with cases going back to 2017 until it is uncovered, by which time it will be too late.

I think the convener is going to come in here—

I am sorry—it is not a supplementary question. It is on something entirely different, and it is a quick question for the end.