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The current framework ensures that doctors and tribunals take account of advance statements and requires them to set out any reasons for overriding statements whenever that is the case.
Both suppliers and customers are doing what they can to keep the costs down, because everybody is in the same situation where they do not want to lose custom. Yes. We need to take into account that not everything is due to Brexit.
The CMO and I have also met survivors and have heard similar, if not identical, accounts. Their experiences were distressing and, frankly, unacceptable.
I am making the point that different factors have to be taken into account depending on whether bail is being considered or another form of monitoring.
Fifty-six per cent of new claims are being turned down and 28 per cent of reassessment claims are also refused, and those figures do not take into account the thousands of Scots who are awarded PIP at a much lower rate.
It is not perfect, as it takes no account of wealth, which is one of the biggest dividing features in our society, nor is it one of the easiest taxes to collect, as many people have found ways to avoid it—Bill Bowman has been encouraging them.
Ministers use their influence and, in some cases, power—they certainly have budgetary power—to ensure that those bodies take equality into account. Local authorities form the other category.
In coming to that view, ministers will be able to take account of the regulator's views on whether it would be able to monitor, assess and report on any outcome that they might propose.