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A simple answer.

As the convener has just asked about the timeframe, I move to that question first. What are the timeframes for the changes, so that we have the transition complete and one regime in place?

If you will excuse the expression, you are a mixed bag. Your deals are quite new, but the Falkirk one covers one local authority, the Ayrshire one covers three local authorities and a wee bit of islands, and there are the three archipelagos: Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles. Mr O’Farrell, you probably have the worst bag of all in relation to the cross-border aspect that you have to deal with.

Witnesses at previous meetings have said that there is a fair bit of democratic deficit. Nobody could say that what you are doing involves a people-power scenario. I am interested in how governance and scrutiny take place in your areas. Let us start with the easy one and go to Mr Bennie on the Falkirk deal.

Grand. Mr McDowall?

What is the flavour of the stakeholders?

Okay. We might well come back to some of that. Ms Murray, please.

So there is a bit of people power there, with some money going to small community groups for them to decide.

Some would say that that is a sweetener in comparison with the total amount of cash that is going into the deal.

I think that one of the problems is that we do not talk in the people’s language. That does not necessarily mean the spades-in-the-ground aspect; it is about how we are going to get to that point, and about building those jobs.

Mr McDowell, you can come back in quickly.

I have one more question. Ms Murray, you do not need to answer this, because you have already done so. I would like quick yes or no answers from the others. You said that the third sector is involved at various levels in your growth deals. Is the third sector involved in stakeholder groups and scrutiny? Mr O’Farrell can go first.