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Audit Scotland needs to step up to the plate. The past work of MSPs has identified the potentially damaging and unaffordable cost of unequal pay and its financially destabilising effect.
That inaction has been regrettable, given that we all agree that post offices offer a vital public service and that countless MSPs, including those present in the chamber, have condemned the post office closure programme.
There is scope for expansion in those areas and such a move would do more to tackle child poverty.It is clear from this morning's evidence and indeed previous evidence that pupils higher than P3 who have been identified as living in poverty will be reached neither by the P1 to P3 policy nor by the extension of eligibility to the children of parents on maximum working families tax credit.As a Mid Scotland and Fife MSP...
Unfortunately, we have evidence to suggest that some of them went straight into the bin. I know that MSPs have been asked to visit their GPs' surgeries.
That would mean that scores of staff in Parliament and perhaps one or two MSPs have diabetes without knowing it.We must also consider the issue in an international context.
Why does the member not believe that there should also be a referendum in England for the same changes, as powers are being moved from MPs to MSPs? I do not believe that there should be a referendum here.