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I do not want to intervene in the narrative around Edinburgh South being the best place to live but, of course, we know that the best place to live is the south of Scotland.
The time is taken up by, as you alluded to, waiting in hospital accident and emergency rooms or in people’s living rooms while waiting for a call from a mental health practitioner.
In return, those living in Scotland continue to have access to a wider and better-funded range of public services in the UK, whether that is prescriptions or tuition fees.
We now have more than 1,300 accredited living wage employers, and, over the past three years, 25,000 people have benefited from an increase in their income as a result of living wage accreditation.