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My vote to grant the Government emergency powers did not grant consent to learn about new or extended restrictions via media speculation, press briefings, leaked documents or on social media, not least during recess. That is a job for Parliament.
SMEs have also been known to employ people who are furthest away from the labour market and to support employment and economic growth in a post-recession economy. They give back to their local communities and support flexible working.
Rather than looking at wages of £15 an hour as a way of reinvesting and pump priming our economy’s recovery from the biggest recession in history, it sees them as expenditure that would somehow be lost.
At the end of last year, just before recess, the Parliament’s Health, Social Care and Sport Committee published its report on remote and rural healthcare in Scotland.
That has been a problem since the 2007 recession, when a lot of small to medium-sized enterprises that could perhaps have developed flats in town centres went out of business.
If we go down the route of relocating people and calling people illegal, it will add to the negative culture that I feel is brewing. During financial crises and recessions, people who are different or poorer or vulnerable are often targeted.
I am afraid that I cannot remember the date off the top of my head. I do not want to avoid the question, but CMAL and others might be better placed to answer the question about when the relationship broke down.