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Let us hope that next year we will be living in more certain times. An additional assurance for you is that we account for what we have spent out of the management contingency to the board and the commission at the final accounts stage.
In terms of resilience, we have seen the island of Eigg build its own generation capacity, but only 80 people live there, and repurposing it in 10 years or so will be quite a task for 80 consumers.
Can you give an indication of a timeframe for that, as those are live matters for some individuals? As I indicated earlier in my evidence, we will make a technical notice on civil legal matters available relatively soon.
Would it allow us to insist in public procurements that contractors should pay the living wage? EU procurement policy is often highlighted as the barrier to allowing those three things to happen.
We went right back to the Gardiner committee’s 1972 report “Living It Down: The Problem of Old Convictions”, which led to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
To me, that is fanciful. I hope that I am not going to live to regret this, but we are wondering whether we could have a shot at producing a list for the committee of the bespoke mechanisms.
All that work is intended to tackle the clear position that, if someone lives in a more deprived area, they will find services harder to access and will be more likely to be unwell.
In some parts of the country, children have to wait for up to two years—a considerable part of their young lives—for an initial appointment. In my constituency, I had a situation in which a child was struggling at school.