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Targets can help to keep us on track, and there is merit in having some high-level measures in place, but I do not think that what gets measured automatically gets done.
The latest estimates from the Office for National Statistics annual population survey show that Scotland had a higher employment rate, a lower unemployment rate and a lower inactivity rate for 16 to 24-year-olds when compared with the rest of the UK.
A huge number of variables affect how the NHS can get the people that it needs in place and support them so that all of us, as users of the NHS, can get the treatment and services that we are looking for.
This would be more straightforward to achieve, if the Scottish Government was to manage all contractual activity in Scotland, incorporating Openreach’s Project Gigabit activity alongside R100.
For example: • 'Long-term' means at least 12 months. • 'Substantial' means "more than minor or trivial" (section 212 (1)). • Normal day-to-day activities - this is not defined in the Act.
My role is not to make ministers’ decisions for them but to highlight those intersectionalities, to get them talking to one other and, more important, to get them to do that prior to making any decisions.
How would members such as Monica Lennon, Mark Ruskell and me know that our area is being actively considered, so that we can get involved and support any bids or pilots that may be in the pipeline?