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The key issue is to have the right beds in the right place—Nicola Sturgeon should reflect that we are not only buying beds, we are buying a hospital with all its equipment and facilities.
I note from your paper that you would support more bands, both at the top and at the bottom, which would obviously amend the gearing ratio between what someone at the bottom would pay and what someone at the top would pay.
In particular, I ask him to comment on the fact that the Swedish scheme offers no opportunity for parents to top up or to buy their way out of the system.
Well over 90 per cent of older people—I do not know the exact figure, so I do not want to venture the wrong one—live, and will continue to live, and die in their own homes. They do not need residential care.
In the old Conservative days, when even Raffan was a Conservative, we had the buy British campaign. There is nothing wrong with a buy Scottish, or a buy local—Welsh or whatever else— campaign.