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It could take another couple of years to gather evidence, hold consultations and so on, and we have spoken about how many extra deaths and injuries that would result in.
At the point of an assessment of whether someone needs to be detained, the mental health officer, who will be a specially trained social worker with extra experience in mental health, will do their utmost to ascertain whether that person has a named person and involve them in any discussion.
A particular concern of communities is that the industry likes to present itself as just involving individuals who are making a bit of extra income on the side as small businesses.
They are already in place in the three areas that are piloting the child disability payment. The extra contribution, commitment and resource to ensure that people access the service and the benefits in the way that is right for them lie at the heart of what we are providing.
The commission says that it will perhaps review that in the future, but we just do not understand why it has not taken the opportunity to put an extra councillor in Culloden and Ardersier.
They went above and beyond, as usual. They spent extra hours—all weekend, and extra shifts—making sure that money got out the door for businesses and that services were provided when people needed them.
Miles Briggs: To ask the Scottish Government how the extra funding that it announced in July 2018 to support breastfeeding services has been distributed.
However, there will have been a much wider benefit of having such an asset there. Has anyone quantified the extra value of the return on that investment?