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A note from the Executive is attached to the regulations. I welcome John Gunstone from the teachers division of the Scottish Executive Education Department.
One policy that I think will endure long term is the ban on buying alcohol in multipacks. The quantity discount ban led to a 2.6 per cent decrease in sales of that type, and of alcohol more generally.
His neighbour across the street spots him arriving home with the gun and thinks to himself, “We must live in an unsafe street. I’d better go out and buy a gun.” So it is with the idea of nuclear deterrence: it is there to protect us from a threat that does not exist.
However, from a Scottish perspective, the larger organisations have a world reach and, if we have leading-edge technology that can be sold round the world, they are willing to come in and buy the product and finance its development and roll-out.
At paragraph 4.3.3, the review group report refers to Unison’s ethical care charter, which I think is a positive way forward in that it commits authorities to buying home care services only from providers that pay the living wage.
Let us not forget that nothing beats seeing real live objects as opposed to photographs and images on a website. Mr Eccles, is there anything that you would like to add?