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That means that reform must be more than transferring resource to the front line of our public services, and it is about transformation in both the back office and front-line functions.
The instrument makes minor corrections to the Environment (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment etc) Regulations 2019 (SSI 2019/26) that the Government undertook to make before the start of the summer recess.
Given CAS’s expertise—I am sure that it is highly valued by all members for its work on tribunals—I press amendment 26. The question is, that amendment 26 be agreed to.
Again, with regard to youth mobility, there are issues such as who is going to go out on intercorporate transfers, what the interests of people are and whether those contacts and clients will be built up.
We are talking about renewables and we are talking about a lot of climate change. We need those transferable skills as well. What is your view on that?
I have heard of mothers planning just to turn up to accident and emergency when their labour is too well established for them to be transferred. I am the consultant on call who would be resuscitating their baby—I am a geriatrician—and that terrifies me.
That means that a level of testing is still taking place for vulnerable categories of patients, particularly if they are going to be transferred into social care settings. How is the Scottish Government monitoring the newer variants that we are seeing, particularly the one that is causing concern just now?
NPF4 ensures that we have a very clear pathway, and we are continuing to discuss with Mr Bowie and other UK Government colleagues how transfer of powers around the 1989 act would allow us to have a much fuller package to ensure a smoother but balanced consenting regime.