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With the current closure of Uig pier for redevelopment, ferry traffic between Skye and the islands have to use the route to get to and from Ullapool. The growth in activity at Kishorn Yard has also seen a significant rise in heavy goods traffic.
It is telling that, as we tackle child poverty in Scotland, there is a level of discomfort among both Labour and Conservative members. That discomfort is due to the inaction by both of their parties at Westminster.
UK Government Welfare Reforms: The Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice (Shirley-Anne Somerville) moved S6M-17242—That the Parliament calls on the UK Labour administration to immediately scrap its damaging social security reforms, as announced in the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper; highlights the UK Gover...
In her evidence to the Committee on 13 June 2023, the current Deputy First Minister stated: I want to avoid people becoming consumed by structural change rather than by the objective of improving services and getting better outcomes. We need to avoid tipping into the territory of “Who will get what job?”
Even if you could do that—which would be hard—you would not get at the cause of the difference, which is the land management activity and the impact that that makes.
That leads on to the point that I was trying to make, which is that it forces people to take other routes to get to the UK or to get to safety, wherever that might be.