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The benefits can be seen in our streets and communities every day. We have new schools, new technology, new information technology, new access to computers for schoolchildren, new sports facilities for schools and new hospitals.
When we talk about a successful move, we mean the logistical exercise involved in getting from A to B and ensuring that, on day one, everyone has moved into the new office and everything works.
It would be tragic if in the new arrangements there was any hindrance to people who require stoma care getting a service that is custom designed for them.
I am sure that the Minister for Transport will encourage the interested parties to get on with bringing those benefits to the people of Livingston and Shotts as soon as possible.
A little time is needed before people get used to the new slot and for education centre programmes and visits from constituencies to be organised to accommodate the change.
Experience suggests that that might tail off a bit—we might have had the first flush of new ideas from members. I suspect—and hope—that we will not get quite as many over the next 12 months as we have had in the first five or six months.