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Having spoken to members of the Scottish Youth Parliament and fellow members of the Education, Children and Young People Committee yesterday, I know that many young people would not only welcome that work but would be keen to be involved in shaping it.
Of course we want to support people into work where they can work, but so many of the people on universal credit are already working—that is the point that is being missed here—and many others are not able to work, but they will all have that £20 a week taken away.
That is despite promises that the new system would be in place by 2021. I was on many panels with members of the Government who said that that would happen.
The amount of money that it pays out to support people is amazing; many of us would have thought that the state should pick up those bills.Unfortunately, we have the massive changes from the Westminster Government, many of which we are aghast at.
I will follow up the question from my colleague Pam Duncan-Glancy. How many meetings did you have with the Met Office, and how many meetings did you have with the DWP to discuss other methods?