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However, we on the Conservative benches want to see more— Will the member take an intervention? If I can get the time back. You will get only some of it, I suspect.
The young person guarantee covers a range of activity, including the developing the young workforce activity, apprenticeships activity, other employability interventions, college and university activity and the kickstart scheme.
My worry is about the number of people who, for the reasons that Mr Scott and Ms Coupland described earlier, get so disillusioned and demoralised that they drop out and do not get the healthcare or various bits of assistance that they could get.
I agree that those are the people we need to get to. How do we get to them? How do we get to the young person who might be bright and gifted but is from one of the poorer areas in Scotland?
I absolutely agree with Donna Hall that one should aim to find ways of avoiding failure demand: kids who do not get educated and who therefore require even more intervention; families who do not get supported and therefore get into crisis.
As well as co-ordinating supply and getting the right product to the right market, producer co-ops’ is now looking at product development and innovations.
The alternative route takes six hours, and that cuts off the area’s economy. It means that someone would get to Glasgow and Edinburgh sooner than they would get to their local hospital.
The people who are watching and who want to hear the questions and answers are getting pretty fed up with this childish behaviour, which means that questions get disrupted like that.