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I have heard some care workers and unions express concerns that there might be an expiry date or it might be time limited and some people are experiencing barriers.
As Lewis Macdonald said, the people who are expressing concerns are men and women who earn their livings in an extremely harsh and hazardous environment.
You previously mentioned asset management and so on, and you have expressed your ambition to broaden the bank’s activity into the provision of advice, investment arrangements, the management of third-party capital and so on.
Sometimes, it is not just that we cannot get people; it is that the attraction of tourism is driving prices up and bringing in white settlers, to use an expression—people are coming in with huge sums of money, buying up properties and using them as holiday homes.
As the head of the prosecution service, it is not for me to express a personal view. Lord Advocate, you have been very clear in your support for a time-limited pilot of single judge rape trials.
I am sure that you have heard concerns expressed about whether local government has the necessary resources, budget and expertise to deliver everything that is being asked of it, especially in the context of the latest budget, where we have seen a real-terms decline in the local government settlement.