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I believe that the employment and job consequences of the investment package are considerable. We know that new capital investment—new schools, new hospitals and new roads—generates employment in the construction industry.
Starting well shows how we can do so through new ways of improving health, new ways of tackling health inequalities, new ways of delivering services and new ways of driving forward change.
The changes have been explained, therefore the question has been answered, but the answer begs the further question of what will happen under the new system. Do you mean because we do not yet know what the new system will produce?
Clearly the usual services, which have been so successful in other areas in assisting those who have needed to find new work or new training for new opportunities, will be provided in Inverclyde as they have been elsewhere.