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Healthy Living Centres (Glasgow) To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to promote the development and promotion of healthy living centres in Glasgow, given the long-term health inequalities that exist in the city.
The first six months of this year showed that visits by those living in Scotland to places around Scotland were up by 16 per cent, whereas the UK market showed an increase of 6 per cent.
We are prepared to broker the debate because when you get reasonable people in a room with a unifying goal—for example, making Aberdeen as compelling a place to live and work in as possible—all things are possible.
My question was: what efforts were made in relation to those proposals proactively to reach the communities who already live with the impact of aviation? My point is that the national planning framework is not about aviation.
For example, Babcock at Rosyth is bringing forward proposals on marine freight as well. There is a dynamic, living situation and the action programme will be similarly dynamic and living and will reflect the changes that we see.
The report goes into many health inequalities, but it misses the inequalities that result from living in rural areas. I think the Government's task force has done the same.
I met Daisy at a roving surgery in the town where she lives. She had already started a petition, and she is clearly passionate about and committed to the subject, so I suggested that she bring the petition to the Parliament.
It seemed that quite a bit of the council’s budget is spent on flying the four members who live abroad to Dublin, where the council meets 12 times a year.
(S4T-01065) CalMac’s ferry services play a crucial role in the daily lives of our island communities, and the Scottish Government has made clear its commitment to the continued delivery of a safe and reliable ferry network.