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We are all well aware of the mental health harm, but the ultimate harm is that people die of Covid, and that is a harm from which there can be no recovery.
To echo my earlier points, we can learn a lot from what we did on electricity. We can transfer the leadership and direction in those sectors into the other sectors.
When we spoke to Transport for London last week, it said to us that the Oyster card will never die: on the basis that there will always be some people who do not have a bank card or cannot use one, Oyster cards will be used for the foreseeable future.
The imperative is there to do it: the “Physical Activity for Health” framework points out that 3,000 people die in Scotland every year from physical inactivity.
For example, local authority staff might be transferred across to the care boards under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations and then TUPE-ed somewhere else.
Cabinet secretary, you will recall question 22 in the committee’s letter to you of 26 March, which asked: “Why is it necessary and appropriate for the scheme to operate under no collection target between implementation in July 2022 and the 1st January 2023?”