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Our mission is to do great things—to improve the economy and the conditions of people who live in Wales—which is a great thing to get up in the morning to come to work to do.
For me, there is a personal element to Tavish Scott’s question because I lived and worked in Brussels for almost 18 years, until last year, so I have first-hand experience of what it is like— So you are the person to ask about restaurants.
We have been running a series of events across the south of Scotland to hear what the people who live and work in the area want. The borderlands deal is one of a number of deals that are currently progressing, each with their own timescale.
There are a lot of people out there in Wongaland who live from pay cheque to pay cheque. They get a phone call or text saying, “You’ve been in an accident, and you must have some kind of injury.”
How do they engage with and buy into the process so that they have confidence in the properties that they live in, which have had risk assessments done on them?
You are right, Mr Kerr, that voluntary severance schemes always affect both the services being provided and the lives of the people who lose their jobs or move on as a result.
It is about listening to the views of the people who live in some of the poorest countries in the world and making sure that what we do in Scotland is fit for purpose and seeks, wherever possible, to improve their lives.
However, in general, we are advising people who live in Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Lanarkshire, Ayrshire and Arran, Lothian and Forth Valley not to travel outside the health board area that they live in if they do not need to.
Our welfare system is bitty, piecemeal and messy, just as our lives are. We go in and out of work at different stages in our lives and have times of dependency and self-sufficiency.