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There were issues about how the Scottish Government was handing the money to local authorities, so it would be good to know what that write-off was.

My last question is about the additional £4 million for the census. Do you have any more details on how that came about?

Okay. I would have thought that a chunk of the census funding must have come from the UK Government. Is it just that we have spent more than our share?

So that we can see how much was spent before that point.

One part of the increase for 2022-23 was

“£4.6 million required for additional operating costs”

for Ferguson Marine. Can you give us a bit more detail on what that was?

My next question is on the transfer to “Rail Franchise”. Can you give us some more information on that? It is mentioned on page 18, where it talks, first of all, about

“capital budget being transferred from Major Public Transport Projects to Rail Infrastructure”.

It is page 18—I am sorry; I should say that it is paragraph 65.

If you could get that information to us, that would be good.

My next question is about the European social fund and the £15 million, I think, of write-offs. Can you give us more information about that?

Is it anything to do with the issue that arose back in, I think, 2017 or 2018, about how the fund was being dealt with by the Scottish Government?

Right.

The response also does not give a timetable, which I think was what the committee was looking for.

Do you agree that all those things are vital in trying to maintain the public sector pay bill at a level close to where it is now?