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We know that few assessments are carried out compared with the number of carers. Even when a carer’s assessment is undertaken, the local authority has discretion about whether to provide the support.
Having read the senior counsel’s interpretation, are you of the view that that single interpretation—we have nothing to compare it with—is accurate? You will not be surprised to hear me say that I will not be commenting on the legal opinion that has been taken by the commissioner’s office.
It was my intention to press the amendment because I feel that there is unfairness in Scotland compared with England. However, in discussions with the cabinet secretary, he has given me an undertaking that he will work towards addressing that unfairness.
The excuse that ministers have given is that Amazon creates jobs, but let us examine that claim carefully. How many jobs were promised, compared with what has been delivered? Are those jobs well paid, satisfying and secure?
Gender is such an important issue in the debates that we are having about gender representation on boards, the on-going issues regarding maternity rights or the many other issues that we deal with at a European level. Compared with when my baby was 11 weeks old, when I could take my son into Parliament to go and vote and that was viewed positively—as you...
That is an area that we will want to pursue with the Government, because it is a strange anomaly that we have a lot of police data that can tell us about the activities of school-aged children outside a school but we have no comparable data about what is actually happening inside that school.
The second part of my question is how that compares with the overall regime in terms of recovery of costs that are incurred by local authorities in making good dangerous and defective buildings.
We have to emphasise a central forecast in part because, like it or not, the primary task we have been given is to judge whether the government has a better than 50% chance of hitting its targets, which implies comparing those targets to a median forecast.”
I think that the view of most people is that individuals vary according to their genetic make-up, and it is highly likely that, in the future, we will be able to identify individuals who have different set points in their thyroid status compared with the general population range.