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The pension schemes were wound up, the Scottish Bus Group was put into liquidation and, on 7 June, Scottish ministers dissolved the Scottish Transport Group.
However, on a national level, that is exactly what we do, and we place great importance on the total.If somebody buys a car, therefore, GDP goes up. Every time the car is filled with fuel, GDP goes up.
CalMac has no control over other costs on its balance sheet, such as fuel costs. The final matter on which I want you to comment is costs to the taxpayer, which you touched on earlier.
Surely the adoption of a similar formula in Scotland would allow us to transfer the burden of proof, start deterring men from buying sex and thereby protect women from the associated violence.
I work on the technical side, so I cannot go into the depths of the buying and commercial strategies, but any buying strategy has to address the main customer requirements, and that means providing a breadth of products that the whole customer profile can purchase.
I firmly believe that, if we said that and had evidence to back it up, the citizens who are sitting behind us would buy into it. We are in agreement. Can I turn that on its head and cut away from all this agreeing with each other?
Has the minister noticed that East Lothian Council has had to spend £13 million to buy houses at the full market value to try to comply with the Executive's homelessness regulations, after selling those same houses at massive discounts under the right-to-buy legislation?