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If we knew the social and economic criteria that made Inverness the top priority for SNH, we would understand why Wick, Elgin, Fort William, Stornoway or Kirkwall were not made the top priority instead.
However, that is part of the current underpinning work. Are you able to tell us, off the top of your head, two or three key points of delay in the summary system?
It is not that my constituents, perversely, want to buy cars they cannot afford; they have no option but to buy a car—sometimes two—that they cannot afford and which are often less fuel efficient because they cannot afford a new car.
Professor Midwinter's paper shows clearly that the Executive is not addressing its stated priorities—although its priorities constantly change and fluctuate, rather like the line between the seashore and the sea. Children were the top priority, but they have been demoted and the top priority is now economic growth.
Scottish Executive (Priorities) To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Executive's current top priorities are. (S2F-1289) Our top priority remains, of course, the promotion of higher levels of economic growth in Scotland.
Given that new mothers from lower-income households are provided with vouchers to buy formula milk, does the minister agree that there seems to be anomaly and that there is an agreed need to promote breastfeeding?
It gives us a real high—it gives us adrenaline and a big push.I feel that we have been talking about a bottom-up approach and have not considered the top-down approach. The top is made up of our successful athletes.