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We set out a significant investment in employability programmes that are targeted at parents and that try to move them into employment. We know that that is the best way out of poverty. We have a target of supporting 12,000 parents into employment over the course of the plan.
By that, I mean that the financial cost of participation is very low, and being physically active is one of the best ways of ensuring good physical and mental health.
First, I do not want to inflict academic writing on members, so the best way to get a sense of my research and thoughts is via my blog—stirlingretail.com—and “A New Future for Scotland’s Town Centres”.
Westminster changes that might help Scotland to manage things would probably be best focused on issues related to the fiscal framework and borrowing rather than on other measures being put in to safeguard Scotland when spending changes in the rest of the UK.
COP26 brought together people from across the world, including a number of technology experts, to share best practice. Did either of you get a sense of emerging or new technologies that had more prominence in the discussions at this COP?
Having spent a fair bit of time with the health secretary looking at those plans in detail, I think that that is the best and quickest way to proceed. On the booster campaign, Anas Sarwar said that he would like teachers to be included.
It is, indeed, a debating chamber, but it need not be a chamber where others are constantly speaking when members are doing their best to represent their constituents.
Taking a cautious approach now, while more people get fully vaccinated, gives us the best chance of staying on the right track overall, so I ask everyone in those areas to continue to be careful.