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Priorities for the country include stabilising demographic decline, through a combination of four areas of focus: (1) migration, (2) attracting people into work, (3) living longer and healthier lives, and (4) family policies.
Under these rules some social security benefits can be claimed by UK nationals living in another EEA country (under the principle of ‘exportability’) and by EEA nationals living in the UK.
The commission was committed to being open; for example, our oral evidence sessions were streamed live on the internet—they are still available online, if anyone wants a box set for Christmas.
Therefore, Jackson Carlaw seems to be arguing against the idea that this Parliament should deign to intervene in people’s lives at any level in order to improve and to protect the health of our children.
Another dimension of making the EU more relevant is that we need to be more concrete and bring more positive outcomes on sustainable development and environmental protection, because we all live in an environment that needs to be protected.
We recognise that workers, whether from Scotland or other parts of the world, are welcome to play a part, although obviously our efforts are on people who live in Scotland, and that is the objective to which our efforts are primarily devoted.
We can, similarly, serve an enforcement notice to require that waste stockpiles be removed, for which—again—there is a minimum period of 21 days. Clearly, for people living in a community that is impacted by odour, that 21-day period is too long.
Does the minister understand our disappointment at the lack of new proposals and the lack of details on new funding for the transformation that we need urgently in our building stock, given the level of fuel poverty that a third of our households live with day to day? Does she understand our disappointment that there has been an increase in business and ind...
Prestwick airport was located where it is because of the lack of cloud cover—a fact that saved the lives of many American and British fliers during the second world war.
We look forward to advancing that discussion to make farmers’ lives easier and not burden them with too many reports, papers and other administrative burdens. 11:00 Can I carry on?