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Many of the speeches that members have made, including Robert Brown's just a moment ago, have been illuminating.The Scottish Government recognises that this is an anxious time for employees who are affected by the Home Office's decision to remove the processing of postal applications for passports from Glasgow.
To my mind, it is better to approach the issue from the perspective of uniform effect than from that of differential implementation. I welcome Keith Brown, who is attending as a substitute for Alasdair Morgan.I have a follow-up question on differential implementation.
I know that many colleagues, including Robert Brown, with whom I discussed the issue earlier today, have taken up allegations with the police, the Cabinet Secretary for Justice, councils and others.
Will she put her money where her mouth is and make the same pledge that Gordon Brown has made, to ensure that science funding in Scotland is ring fenced and is not squeezed?
The bubble was, of course, built up on Gordon Brown’s watch. As Chancellor of the Exchequer, he deregulated many of these issues, to much ill effect on the whole economy.I want to make it absolutely clear that housing policy is about not only the rented sector—extremely important though it is—but the owner-occupied sector.
One of my colleagues might want to question you further on the level playing field aspect.I return to the point that Robert Brown raised earlier about conflicts of interest.