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Especially in the creel-fishing sector, Scotland has a lot of very high-value premium products that the European market loves—especially live langoustines, live lobsters and live brown crabs.
The strategy is about making the police visible in all the places where we live our lives. You said that the merger was difficult and none of us would dispute that, but I want to touch on something that has been discussed quite a lot this morning.
On the concept of sex education—I hope that my mum is not watching this live—I became sexually active when I was a senior at school and, as a gay man, I was sexually active with another man.
There is a conundrum in our sector, because our European competitors do not pay the national living wage, whereas we pride ourselves on paying, as a minimum, the living wage, not the minimum wage, and the vast majority of people earn an awful lot more than that.
I have written to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to set out my belief that there should be the living wage for the kickstart scheme, and I intend to raise the importance of embedding fair work and the living wage across all employment programmes when we meet in December.
It is only right that, as technology continues to develop at a fast pace, we examine how it could make the process of voting more in tune with how people live their lives. As the motion states, “the traditional paper voting method has remained virtually unchanged since 1872”.
To ask the Scottish Government, since it received its living wage accreditation, what information is has regarding any of its non-departmental public bodies paying their staff less than the living wage.