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I am thinking about services to the far north, where the large amount of wealth that could be created is out of proportion with the number of people who live there. The work to improve journey times to Inverness depends partly on rolling stock but also on infrastructure—mainly signalling.
I visited a dairy farm in my own constituency yesterday, and the dairy farmer explained to me that in 1966 he had a dozen dairy cows and made a good living but today he has about 150 dairy cows and makes a substantial loss.
The benefits will not necessarily be felt by the people who live where the work is done. We need a greater vision to understand the situation and to take things forward.
A case was reported to me of a Scot who went to live in the Netherlands. Because he had oesophageal cancer, he took advantage of the law there, which he was quite entitled to do as he had been living there for long enough.
That discovery massively expands the known population of that amazing species. The previous estimate of the live population around the United Kingdom was 14, of which three were in Scotland.