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I have concerns about the delay of the census until 2022, which we heard will give rise to issues with Scottish data being out of date and being derived and worked on from a different date from that of the data for the rest of the UK.
Over the summer period we will therefore continue our iterative recruitment exercise, as well as the approach that we have achieved to date. Will the cabinet secretary clarify how many contact tracers have actually been recruited?
Incredibly, the Government still has no accurate and up-to-date information, so it has no idea how many full-time equivalent GPs there are in Scotland.
Members may wish to note that the date for laying the regulations at Westminster has moved from 28 November, which is set out in the paper that is before us, to 17 February 2020.
That demonstrates that, in the teeth of a recession and the 36 per cent cut to our capital budget, we are committed to improving and expanding the housing stock in Scotland.
We are consulting on the bill over the summer and the Parliament will then scrutinise it after the summer recess. Mr Griffin’s amendments to expire the pre-action requirements on the one hand and to continue them, in effect, on the other are therefore unnecessary.
We believe that the only people who will get any true benefit from that will be those who are leaving prison and have a set release date, or care leavers who have a set date for when they will leave care.