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More than £1 billion has been spent on 12 new benefits, which include council tax reduction, the Scottish child payment and the best start grant. A lot of those benefits are outside the health portfolio.
We should be in no doubt that it is the highly skilled workforce in the current oil and gas sector that will be best placed to transfer over to the renewables sector in a just and fair manner.
I wonder, and some of the public wonder, whether we are doing energy the best way that we can. As I understand it, Scotland produces five times as much gas as it uses.
We need to have turnover and make best use of our stock so that it does not expire, so that we keep abreast of what is modern and what staff need to use by way of PPE, and so that staff are fully trained in its use and how we distribute it to people.
There was quite a lot of energy, and local authority officers, through the central person in Government, were supported to share best practice and to talk about what was working and what the issues were and that kind of thing.