Part of the debate – in the Scottish Parliament at 2:38 pm on 26 September 2007.
I made clear in my statement the importance of drawing services together to ensure that we have an effective presence that people can access in their preferred fashion. That will lie at the heart of how we take forward the enterprise development agenda. I cannot give Mr Whitton the office-by-office account that he is looking for; such issues will become clearer over time. We want to ensure that, at local level, enterprise staff and local authority staff have a clear way of working that allows them to work effectively together. I would have thought that such an approach would be widely welcomed throughout the chamber.