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You are talking about how we urgently need to get farmers to move towards climate and biodiversity mitigation, but you have a fund that makes it difficult to get funding—farmers miss out by a couple of points.
More generally in politics, the challenge for political parties with regard to equality is getting more women and people with other characteristics to become active in parties in the first place.
I am not talking about issues that come up once someone gets a dog but issues that arise before they even get to that point, which might mean that they might not get one at all.
Such an audit would give us a picture of things, and then we would be able to assess whether they were working or delivering in terms of getting that promotional activity for Scotland.
If a particular thing is more expensive in one place or the taxes on it are higher, people decide to shut down an activity until the price that they get goes up.