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Scotland-wide organisations such as Macmillan, along with local groups such as Ayrshire Cancer Support, provide a wide range of support that enables people living with cancer to continue to live their daily lives.
But what about the point that with a currency union very strict controls would be imposed on what Scotland can do? We can live with that, in the same way as we can live with many other things in a period of transition.
History shows that the disastrous consequence of national building programmes that distribute funding from the centre with no priority for wider action is houses that no one wants to live in and which we have to demolish.
To ask the Scottish Government how many employees are covered by the living wage accreditation scheme. Research carried out by KPMG in October 2014 indicated that Scotland has a higher proportion of employees paid the living wage compared to both the UK as a whole and each devolved UK nation.
I urge the committee to consider my recommendations, which I have submitted out of a genuine desire to improve the lives of all parties post separation.