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S5W-31876 Rachael Hamilton: To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown of the financial support provided through (a) Best Start Foods and (b) Best Start Grant in (i) the Scottish Borders and (ii) Scotland in the last year.
I have a supplementary question for Professor Austin on that point. Do you believe that the Scottish Government should have its own strategy for restoring and protecting the blue carbon habitats that you talked about?
What steps have you been taking to clarify understanding among the public, businesses and so on? Liam McArthur makes a fair point in his observation. There has been talk about “following the rules” and “doing the right thing”.
Again, I will kick off, then ask the team to come in with some detail. The starting point is to remind ourselves that the point of having state enterprise agencies is for them to get involved in risky things, otherwise we would not have them.
It is all right for the Tories to talk about work as the best way forward, but if they take away disabled people’s transport, there is no way that they will be able to achieve that aim.
Even in anticipation of that point, with some of the big projects that we have had—the M80, the M8 bundle that Richard Lyle talked about and the Queensferry crossing—we are seeing a shift towards some of the low-carbon things that the First Minister talked about in the program...