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Say the Scottish Government cuts income tax and people’s net incomes increase. If we ignore any behavioural effects of that, we can work out what it means in terms of the UK Government paying less universal credit, and the savings could be transferred to Scotland.
The evidence here is slightly different, as it relates to those in the west of Scotland who indulge in violent, drunken behaviour. In other words, it relates to criminality.
We have run a very successful trial to help us to understand the behaviours not just of the health professionals who conduct the assessments but of the people coming in to be assessed.
People say that rabbits are aggressive, but that is not the case; they are just being denied their natural behaviours. Basically, you are locking them in a prison.
By teaching the public, and particularly children, about climate change, we are starting to see behavioural change. How can we bring that change in respect of biodiversity?
However, that brings into play a series of behavioural issues such as the rise in obesity and alcohol consumption and the increasing number of people with long-term conditions and other disabilities.
Do you have examples of the work of the task force enabling evidence to be provided and a compelling case to be made for a change of behaviour? The task force is at a very early stage in its work.
I do not suggest for a moment that there were not some elements of the behaviour that I found hard to understand and that could not easily be explained by a lack of understanding.
It says that the characteristics of good strategic commissioning involve issues of behaviours and culture, strategy and engagement, and performance and improvement.
That has an important part to play in changing adult behaviour, because whenever a parent takes a kid to school by car, the odds are that they will do the rest of their commute by car.