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The Government is keen for us to be involved, to provide support and to use our links with practitioners and people’s lived experience to inform the code of practice as it moves forward.
The phrase that is used in various parts of the constitution is “equality of living conditions” or—depending on the place—“equivalence of living conditions”.
There is evidence that people do not fundamentally change their lives for tax reasons. Incorporation is easy, but few people move home for tax purposes.
That will give more space for back benchers to make contributions and I hope that it will also make for snappier and more effective contributions. I live in hope that my exhortation will be adhered to.
To be clear: that one school in Levenmouth will have more pupils who live in deprivation than the entire number of pupils who live in deprivation in the whole of Clackmannanshire.
That is a very topical issue because of the interference of the press in people’s lives. How far are the press entitled to intrude into the lives of, say, politicians?
Indeed, they are part of our communities in many parts of Scotland, and the people who live here currently and those who may move here in the future can work and live together very well if practical matters are dealt with.