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If the bill passes, all that it will prevent is the direct targeting of individuals as they take what might be the most deeply personal decision of their lives. That also explains why the bill does not set a precedent.
We have talked about mainstream provision, and they often live in very close proximity to a local school, so asking them to move to a different school across the city, say, or across a rural area would be of financial detriment to them.
It highlights 2011 census data illustrating that central belt local authorities accounted for 30 per cent of those living in Scotland with some skills in Gaelic.
We have just come through Covid and Brexit, and we are trying to build up our European Union markets again. Those are the markets that the live and fresh boats will be reliant on.
Many people rely on public services to a far greater extent than others; inequalities surround how many of us live our lives. We will continue to focus on that through our audit work on what has most fundamentally been achieved from public spending.
These are forms of input which do not rely on direct interaction between individuals with lived experience and committee members and/or Parliament staff.
Influencing amendments
Another Committee member described how they approached the engagement session with people with lived experience of drug/alcohol addiction:
I've got my notepad that I take in there and I'm sitting writing down the potential amendments to the Bill directly from input from people with lived exper...