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We can seek reassurances in a letter.

David is online. Do you want to introduce yourself?

That is very helpful. I invite our other witnesses to comment if any of them have been sparked by that. I would be interested to hear what community empowerment looks like to them. We have heard about that from David Watson, but I would also like to hear others’ perspectives.

Yes, that is right—we will get clarity on that in a few days’ time.

Does anybody else want to come in on that?

Annie Wells is also online.

Taking those comments into consideration, would members like to take oral evidence on the matter?

That concludes the evidence session. Thank you all for coming in; thank you, David, for joining us online. It has been really helpful to hear your perspectives as we take the process of community planning partnership evidence taking further. Your evidence will richly add to our report; I have certainly been making lots of notes, and I understand that lots of colleagues have been making lots of notes, too.

We are having such a great conversation.

We will suspend for a few minutes.

Thanks for that. That highlights a possible element of a lack of empowerment of community councils that needs to be looked at with regard to funding. Development trusts, in a way, got started because they were a way for communities to raise funds, take action and do things that they wanted to do.

The next theme is measuring impact. Marie McNair is leading on that.