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That returns me to the point that, if you are going to do public sector reform, you have to get your ducks in a row and get your capacity and vision strong enough to be able to deliver it before you start making cuts in other areas.
The point of order that the member makes is similar to the one that was made by Johann Lamont following FMQs. The bureau is actively considering the process by which the response to Covid is scrutinised.
We would then no longer be wanting changes that the Westminster Government refuses to make, such as the changes that are required to get rid of the benefit cap, which has seen many more families being plunged into poverty during the coronavirus pandemic.
By all accounts, the scheme is in crisis. Fair start Scotland was meant to get disabled people into work and yet we are more than half way through the period and only 10 per cent of referrals have made it into a job for three months or more.