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I hear more and more every day from constituents who are struggling to get an appointment, including one with a 14-month-old baby who cannot get registered.
Basically, that shows that East Renfrewshire appears to get more for the private sector per child than for the public sector, but the Western Isles appears to get significantly less.
We worked out that, at the current rate that applications are getting through the FSA, it will take about 18 years to get a regulated product through, so that gives you an indication.
One point is that there is too narrow a range of learning activities in the senior phase. I am keen to know how that might be improved and how you would broaden out the activities.
I am not saying that we could not get to that place at some point. My point is that we are not there now, it is going to be a long time before we get there, and many disabled people are going to suffer in that interim period.
One example was the research and development tax credit, which, as it became more generous for small firms, seemed not only to incentivise R and D itself but to incentivise people to badge their activity as R and D in order to get the subsidy.