Mr. Robert Watt:

We would like the market to be more competitive. We could have an ideological discussion about socialising the construction sector and what that would mean but that is a policy matter that is outside my remit. I do not think that it is a matter for this committee. There was a time in the past, which I have heard people talk about, where local authorities used to do the vast majority of work themselves and did not use contractors. I do not think that that was necessarily the most efficient way.