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To ask the Scottish Government when it will begin providing the Best Start Grant. The timescales for delivering the Best Start Grant and the other social security benefits that are being devolved are yet to be finalised.
The amendment may have practical complexities that are best addressed through guidance that sets out how the views of children and young people are best represented in the planning process.
Having said that, as we do the strategy review, we are open to all options that are in the best interests of our farmers. It is a co-operative, and whatever is in the best interests of the farmers will be the best outcome for First Milk.
That is expressly not what best value is about. Dr Simpson is moving into the correct territory when he talks about the purpose of the best value assessment being to consider a range of factors, not just price.
Therefore, the first solution is to work with the bill and, by improving the terms, make it the best that we can. The alternative is to go back to the drawing board and rethink how we approach the entire governance of the UK internal market.