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Following on from what Roland said, we were looking at how there are many sectors in which a number of people will not be able to get work again. We therefore need to look at what kind of new areas they can work in.
To see that, we only have to look at the size of the unmet needs lists and the waiting lists for people not only to get on to social care but to get a social care assessment.
I welcome the suspension of the industrial action that had been scheduled for 12 June, and I encourage HIAL’s air traffic controllers to consider carefully HIAL’s latest offer of a new retention allowance.
In terms of the scale that is needed, the UK Government should look again at capital and provide a new capital stimulus package. The package that was promoted recently by the Prime Minister was recycled capital, so Scotland did not get consequentials and no new money was broug...
The purpose of the soft landing, which I think Claudia Beamish supports, is to ensure that a penal regime is not introduced as farmers get used to the new system. A year is a reasonable time within which to expect that to take place.
Many bus stops in Scotland have no information whatsoever. A potential new passenger can turn up at a bus stop, not find any information, think, “I don’t want to know,” and decide to get a taxi, catch a train, walk or take the car.