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The reason I raise this issue today is that, over the Easter recess, the health and social care partnership in Fife took the decision to close out-of-hours services in Glenrothes in my constituency, and in St Andrews and Dunfermline.
We have ample evidence that it had an impact right through the recession when many companies did not have enough money otherwise to keep somebody on or take somebody new on.
I am afraid that I cannot remember the date off the top of my head. I do not want to avoid the question, but CMAL and others might be better placed to answer the question about when the relationship broke down.
Universities have been left in an impossible position. Application closing dates are imminent or, in some cases, even past, so the Government must decide and decide soon.
Despite the difficulty in the public finances, I am proud and pleased that, through a period of recession, we have managed to keep our museums free for the public to access.
We see a close link between economic activity and emissions, and we have never denied that. On emissions since the recession kicked in in 2008-09, we were well aware that economic issues might have underlain the drop in emissions in transport and the wider business sector.