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Our policy on free tuition ensures that access to education is based, as we have said many times before, on the ability to learn and not on the ability to pay.
The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations estimates that the national insurance hike will cost the third sector £75 million, which will affect many of our most valued cultural organisations, such as local theatres, museums and galleries.
More than 250,000 containers are moved annually through the port of Grangemouth, which I visited recently, and 100,000 go through Greenock ocean terminal, along with many other commodities moved through ports across Scotland.
I stress the urgency here because there are so many men who will be affected by this in their lifetime—I think that I read somewhere that it is eight out of 10, which is an incredibly high proportion—and the screening tests that are available for so many conditions and diseases have been one of the tremendous advances in society over the past 20 years and have saved lives in so many cases.
I agree that learning to swim provides many physical and mental wellbeing benefits, and we should be mindful of that in relation to curriculum for excellence entitlements.
As for where technology such as Airbnb and so on and so forth has taken us in relation to tourism, Finlay Carson will be aware that many countries and cities across the world have been reviewing their regulation on self-catering and short-term lets.
(S6O-01399) The increase in energy prices in recent months remains a huge worry for many consumers. That is especially true for those in the Highlands and Islands, where the additional costs of distributing energy are higher than in other parts of the country.
From what I know about the bill, and from previous discussions, I think that many of its provisions are covered by activity that the Government is already undertaking.