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For the first time ever, we and Scottish airports had a Scotland stand at a sort of speed-dating exercise that takes place once a year in the airline industry.
We do not think that that is reasonable, especially in a recession. There are fine judgments to be made about whether public bodies use their scarce resources to spend money on voluntarily registering large tracts of Scotland.
When a number of oncologists are reaching planned retirement dates at much the same time—as has happened recently in Aberdeen—more could and should be done to recruit consultants and ensure that properly trained people are available in advance of those dates.
The individuals in such a study are usually linked in some way and, in the case of GUS, the children in each of the three groups who participate are linked by their dates of birth—they have all been born within the same 12-month period.
Across the chasm that separates us, I say to Alex Johnstone that we should not leave vulnerable people at the back of the queue because of a recession; we should put them at the front of the queue because of a recession.
As Beatrice Wishart put it—and she has been involved in many cases affecting constituents in the northern isles—languishing in the dark recesses of that department causes real detriment and disruption to those who are trying to rebuild their lives.
Each year, we are building only about 60 per cent of the houses that we think that we need to build, or that we were building pre-recession. If we take out the houses that come through appeal on the scale that Kevin Stewart outlined when he introduced the bill, that figure would be reduced to 40 per cent.
I am particularly pleased to secure one of the final members' business debate slots before the recess, to debate an important subject.I welcome the young people who are in the gallery to listen to the debate, who come from Who Cares?