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Labour shortages
Scotland already had an ageing population, declining working age population and, compared to the rest of the UK, a lower birth rate.
I have personally engaged with several communities that have been supportive of our approach. For example, I recently visited Penicuik crime prevention panel.
If our aspiration and ambition is high enough, we should not just be comparing ourselves with our own past; we should be comparing ourselves with the rest of the world, too.
We are talking about small property that will very often be moved around, of short duration and of comparatively low value. That is fine; there is no great problem with that.
In fact, if we take all the work capability assessments that Atos does and compare them to the number that are overturned by appeal, we find an overturn rate of about 9 per cent.