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I used to say, “Yeah—I’ll get to that.” It is really important that we get to people like that farmer, which is why I made a point of going to speak to him.
Activity is also in hand on orders that are due to be placed, with a view to having one in particular—the one to which Dr Allan referred—well in train by the end of the financial year.
In 2023-24, 73 per cent of unpaid carers were women. One in four economically inactive women cited looking after family and home as the reason for their being economically inactive.
Luke Farrow, an orthopaedic surgeon and research fellow at the University of Aberdeen, told BBC Scotland that getting the treatment centres online is an absolute priority and that, every week, the backlog gets worse.
We also have climate action schools, which help pupils and others to get involved in climate activity. On engagement, we are working on a number of fronts.