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I welcome the minister Jamie Hepburn back to the meeting and extend a welcome to the accompanying Scottish Government officials: Fiona McQueen, chief nursing officer, and Ailsa Garland, principal legal officer.
Given that universal credit will have an even more draconian sanctions regime than the existing JSA and ESA system, I fear that more and more people will fall through the cracks and disappear off the radar of the official statistics. That is very worrying.
I have no evidence that the enterprise network has created the situation you are describing in Dumfries and Galloway, but I am sure that access to the enterprise network officials might vary across the country.
Claudia Beamish talked about deliberate and systematic destruction—that was referred to in one of the official reports—but I would call it mindless and brutal vandalism.