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According to current trends, by 2035, more than 480,000 people in Scotland will be living with diabetes. It is estimated that 6.7 per cent of men and 4.2 per cent of women are living with chronic heart disease.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
23 September 2011
Is there not a risk that after going through those various stages the company might have lost the will to live or lost the chance to win a particular contract?
What my constituents in Dunfermline want to know is why, when they are facing a cost of living crisis, SNP MSPs are voting against a living wage and measures to end zero-hours contracts.
Nobody wants to punish people who already have an adverse life experience because of poverty, domestic abuse or whatever else they have to live with. None of us would want to have those things present in our lives.