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At present, then, is it more of a signposting website that shows people where green jobs are and where green training is, or is that too simplistic?

My next question, which ties into that, is about your involvement with ScotWind. How can we ensure that as many of the opportunities that we can possibly get from that remain in Scotland?

How could you increase that pace?

With regard to ScotWind, has that engagement with potential employers already started?

I guess that that information will then flow into the regional skills investment plans and the sectoral skills assessment plans.

I was wondering whether, for once, Aberdeen was top of the table. That would be a first. [Laughter.]

I want to go back to Amy Woodhouse’s point about funding not being linked to the NPF. Fife Council gave evidence to us earlier. Its submission says:

“In terms of our funding to the voluntary sector we do not assess grant awards against their contribution to the National Outcomes directly, nor do we map the awards to the National Outcomes that they contribute to.”

When I asked the council about that, I was told that it maps and links that against its LOIP. If we consider the golden thread, its LOIP should have due regard to the NPF. Maybe it is not directly explicit, but there is that link, using the golden thread, through the LOIP back to the NPF.

Maybe the link is there but just through another connection.

Should we measure that at a local level?

Elle Adams made the point about businesses focusing more on the SDGs than on the NPF. At the start of the discussion, Daniel Johnson asked whether we should just scrap the NPF. Should we focus on the SDGs instead? Would that get more buy-in from businesses and other sectors?

So all voluntary groups in your area will be well aware of the LOIP, because they have to know about that to get any sort of funding. The NPF is probably quite distant and alien to many of them.