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If you think that it is safe enough to keep the venues open, you need to ask yourself how much safer introducing passports makes the situation and whether the extra degree of safety justifies the fact that the burden of that safety will fall on a smaller group of the Scottish population—that is, people who do not have access to certification.
I know that the demands that have come from some quarters in the recent past would require more than £1 billion of extra expenditure, but no indication has been given of where that money would come from.
Given that he has dual responsibilities for housing and transport, which sometimes compete for capital, will he assure us that housing is his top priority for the extra capital that is still to be allocated?
Despite that, we are on track to exceed our target of 1,000 extra police officers. If Labour did not promise a single extra police officer in its manifesto, why is it suddenly feigning interest?
The problem with that is the potential damage to the sustainable fishing activities that the MPAs are meant to maintain. The central point is that the extra measures are not required to meet the conservation objectives.
He could have invested while still repairing the debt and the deficit and moving the public finances into a sustainable position, and he could have allocated an extra £150 billion to public expenditure.