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This is not some open-ended investment—if it were, it would be a grant. The sort of activity in which you did not get your investment back would be more aligned with the style of business support that you might see in some aspects of the work of the enterprise agencies.
Our position over the past couple of years has always been that support should go only to active farming. However, if we do not give support to inactive farming, the money simply stays in Brussels; we cannot call it down and are therefore not able to transfer it from inactive to active farming.
We work collaboratively with partner organisations to measure the impact of our community safety activities; build our evidence base of what works best; and adjust our approach to get the best possible impact for the resources available.
As I said, we have two companies that we are actively invested in and seeking to roll out, so we could probably get some feedback on the challenges that they are experiencing and feed that back to you.
We seek to support those individuals where we can, whether that is by moving the targeted individual, moving the individual who is posing a threat to them, or trying to get them access to support services if they are actively using substances.
If we wait to collect more data, rather than getting on with protecting those habitats, they might be gone by the time that we get around to taking any action.
Many cities and companies are setting net zero targets and, undoubtedly, they will need offsets to get to net zero, because it is simply impossible to get gross emissions down to zero.
To ask the Scottish Government what proportion of the reportedly rising number of people of working age who are economically inactive are inactive as a result of NHS waiting lists or long COVID.
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