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A particular issue is the application of payments to historical activity. Some farms receive support payments for activity that they carried out 20 years ago.
Experienced prison officers might decide to leave their roles in their 40s or 50s because they want to get another job before getting close to 60, when their employment prospects will decline.
I assure Mr Brown and the Parliament that the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government is in active dialogue with the UK Government, which has the responsibility to resolve those issues.
It will also look at ways in which peoples’ voices can be embedded in the work of the Parliament through innovative activities such as citizens’ assemblies.
If people were reliant on public transport, there was therefore no way that they could engage in the evening activities. I have often said that if we get transport right, we can probably get attendance at cultural activities right.