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The crucial question is this: how many more deaths, how many more heartbroken families and how many more tragic stories will it take before the Government loses confidence in the health board’s leadership?
However, there is a question of fairness. I struggle to think of many other areas of employment in which we would move something on to a statutory footing—essentially, we are obliging schools to provide it and, de facto, obliging teachers to provide it as part of their employment—but not pay for it.
S6W-00815 Richard Leonard: To ask the Scottish Government how many of its former ministers have sought its approval in each of the last five years to take up a position with another employer, and how many times this approval was granted.
Not a huge amount of attention is being paid to that, and there are many challenges in ensuring that we get a strong outcome under the gender action plan at the upcoming COP.
I agree as long as the approach is proportionate, pragmatic and reasonable. “De minimis” can mean many different things, so I agree as long as it is not there to stop reasonable, normal transactions.