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We added those up and they total about £3.6 billion in Scotland—the most expensive insurance policy in living history, I should think. Further, the NPD model includes the inflexible contract provisions that are inherent in PFI.
As more and more people get older—the demographic profile shows that people are living longer—over the next 15 to 20 years, we will face huge problems if we do not get it right.
I think that we struggle to understand the breadth and the ups and downs of the budgets in that space, such as those that relate to housing, people who live in poverty and people in the criminal justice system.
At times in the pandemic, there were reports of students facing difficulties to comply with self-isolation rules with their communal living arrangements.
Should ministers consider the regulations to be required urgently, then they may come into force immediately.
This means that future fishing opportunities should be based on the principle of zonal attachment, which better reflects where the fish live, and is the basis for the EU’s fisheries agreement with Norway.