Murdo, sorry. My apologies.
The census data that I mentioned earlier was something that we did not have previously. It has set a baseline for where we take social enterprise in the future.
Jonathan mentioned the likelihood that we would repeat the census in two years. We will repeat it in two years and assume that the landscape will have changed.
Without policies to make the growth tangible, the census will say either that the number has increased by a couple of thousand or that it has gone down by 400 or 500 or a couple of thousand because the marketplace has changed and the conditions in which social enterprises are operating have changed for the better or worse.
The policy interventions that are already in place need more promotion around, for example, the Procurement (Scotland) Act 2015, which we could be making more of. In the view of Social Enterprise Scotland and its members, that was an important piece of legislation, but it was as if we were through on goal but managed to hit the post. It could have gone further.
To encourage business models, public bodies could and should be creating opportunities through their contracting and commissioning processes and driving the pace of health and social care integration, which, to some of our members, appears to be moving at the pace of glacial contraction. We could be doing more to create market opportunity.
On assessing the sources of funding and support that are available, you have already heard a number of comments on grant funding. We need to move away from the language of funding and talk about funding and investment in social enterprise. There are a number of emerging models and resources. The issue is not an absolute shortage of money: organisations are now entering the market to make social investments rather than simply to offer grants.
As I said before Jonathan Coburn spoke to us, social enterprise is in a reasonably robust condition. That said, there are some challenges and pressures. As the demand for public services grows, the resources are declining. How do we bridge that gap?
The more encouraging data that were included in the census results are around consumer-facing social enterprises that are providing goods and services to meet a public demand.
There is greater opportunity for us to influence the decision making of 5.3 million people in the street than the commissioning processes of 32 local authorities. Social enterprise is reasonably robust in the round but it needs policy intervention and active implementation of those policies to make it grow.