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The Scottish Youth Parliament has taken action on it, and we are passing it on to the committee and to the Government so that it can be taken into account to ensure that whatever support is now put in place for young people has their best interests in mind.
I can therefore confirm that the Scottish Government is today transferring £950 million to local authorities so that payments can start going into the bank accounts of eligible businesses from Monday.
We will continue to engage with the Scottish Legal Aid Board and others to ensure that such issues are taken into account when the bill is implemented.
We hope to take a balanced-scorecard approach, with red, amber and green ratings for all our metrics. That is to improve accountability, so that we can point the governance committees to our areas of risk.
The member makes his point clearly and cogently. We have to take account of the diversity of our island communities, and he is quite right to identify that the contexts differ.