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I can give you various examples of that—the obvious one would be a mouse or a rat getting into to somewhere such as a hospital operating theatre and you, the customer or the pest controller do not want to wait two weeks for anticoagulant baits to start working.
In effect, it provides a mechanism for the health department to get the money spent in the area that it thinks is needed to deliver the required number of nurses and midwives.
You mentioned the fact that the areas surrounding Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow are important. Are they getting more important as those areas get wider and wider?
I also assure Liam McArthur that Marine Scotland officials are actively tracking and monitoring all Russian vessels that are exercising the right of innocent passage, under international law, in Scottish waters.
In relation to financial support, my colleague the Minister for Public Finance, Planning and Community Wealth, who is sitting alongside me on the front bench here, has activated the Bellwin scheme in relation to both storm Arwen and storm Barra.
It needs to be clearly defined which organisation people should get passed on to, so that they are not just passed around, in which case they get fed up.