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We know that the model works: we have the international comparators and we know that it is successful because we have swathes of research telling us that.
It does not mean Ross Greer stating to Shell, “Can’t wait till we seize your assets and prosecute your executives”, or Maggie Chapman comparing the oil and gas industry, which is one of the most advanced industries in the world and key to our transition, to the stone age.
Luxembourg totally restructured its economy after the second world war, whereas those other regions, which were in a comparable situation before the war, did not, because they knew that their national Governments would bail them out.
The straight answer is that—if we compare the Parliament’s first budget since the 2011 election with this draft one—the planned cut in John Swinney’s recently announced draft budget is £34.6 million for next year compared with the current year.
Most of my questions on the cost of living have already been covered, with the exception of one. How have not only your membership but your organisations been affected by the cost of living crisis?
Many well-resourced veterans charities offer help with the issues that I have mentioned and with both physical and mental health. Keith Brown and I visited such facilities when we were ministers and Graeme Dey and I visited veterans organisations in Aberdeen in summer 2019.
He had a full care package of four visits per day and, as we spoke to the carers, we discovered that two of those visits were from carers employed by the council and two were from carers employed by an agency.
I thank them for the work that they are doing, particularly in the local rural payments inspections division offices, all the main ones of which I have visited. Do we have enough officials to deal with the demands of Brexit?
Committee reports
Date published:
15 September 2023
Section 72, the main provision, would strengthen the position of the deceased person's spouse or civil partner (compared to their position under the current law) when someone dies without leaving a will.