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What would be the cost of remediation work on those 100 properties?

I have two quick questions on the impact on the housing market. We know that there is an affordability issue in the Scottish housing market relative to income. We also know that certain developers have had their margins squeezed intensely and that, for example, the Stewart Milne Group has gone to the wall. What assessment have you made of the effect on the price of, let us say, a £250,000 starter home? Based on your discussions with developers, how much of the levy will they pass on to house buyers?

We are talking about public safety and people’s financial security in relation to their properties. Just for clarity, I assume that the £17 million or so was spent in-year and that, moving forward, you intend to fund the remediation works out of future budget settlements. Is there a risk that the process could slow because the Scottish Government did not have sufficient funds in-year to fund the accelerated pace of remediation work?

So a new developer would be exempt.

Good morning, cabinet secretary. To go back to the figures, in March 2020, you received £97.1 million in Barnett consequentials for remediation. The response to the freedom of information request from March this year, which has been referred to, said that £16.9 million had already been spent. I want to delve a little deeper into the remaining £80 million. Do you have that money at hand to spend if there should be an accelerated period of remediation?

But do you have an indication? Is it 50:50, or is it two thirds to one third? I am just trying to get a rough idea.

Fine. Given the in-year budget pressures that the Government faces this year, and that it will probably face in future budgets, is there a risk that the remediation process will go only as fast as the Scottish Government can afford, in-year?

That is fine.

My final question is on oncology-enabling projects at the Edinburgh cancer centre, which have been delayed by approximately a year, with the cost probably 10 to 15 per cent over budget. Can you flesh out the reasons for the delay and the increase in budget?

No problem. Thank you very much.

Obviously, accountability is linked to capacity and competence. Do you get the impression that there was some failure of past or present leadership in the organisation?