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The focus now must be on longer-term sustainable reforms, rather than short-term reactive changes. l am joined today by Joanne Brown, who is the appointed auditor for NHS Highland, and Leigh Johnston, from Audit Scotland.
If we consider the case law, the Government has referred us to the case of R(L) v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, in which the judge summed it up by saying that it is about proportionality.
Much of the substance of the questions that I was going to ask has been dealt with, but I want to pick up on one aspect in Mr White’s submission and ask Ms McHardy about the community triage pilot with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and G, K and L divisions. Mr White, do you want to outline what you thought of the process?
Gavin Brown has perhaps read the same Bill Jamieson article that I read about LBTT, in which Bill Jamieson said: “few acronyms are more calculated to empty a room these days than L&BTT ... MSPs can be excused utter bafflement as to how much L&BTT will actually raise.”
However, in the last few decades, average life expectancy in Scotland has not improved at the same rate as elsewhere.1 Fenton, L., Minton, J., Ramsay, J., Kaye-Bardgett, M., Fischbacher, C., Wyper, G., … McCartney, G. (2019).
On the structural issues that might have led to pub closures—and the disproportionality between the independents and the L and T model—we all recognise that we need to reinvigorate our local communities.