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Frankly, we have lost sight of the real crisis. The bill does not demand new treatments and it would not require the building of new facilities from scratch.
Can I quickly pick up on what our paper says about the summary case management pilot? It says that the testing of the new system is not due until 2023. Are you looking at the correct paper?
(S4O-05622) I established the independent working group for consumer and competition policy for Scotland to consider how new consumer and competition powers that are to be devolved to the Scottish Parliament under the new Scotland Bill could be put to best effect.
If we think imaginatively about how we apply that, perhaps we can find a way of unlocking the potential that is already in Scotland before we start thinking about new towns. The latest statistic is that there are 32,000 empty homes, which is a huge number.