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In the first part of the question, Margo MacDonald makes a good point—we need to drive up the standards of the food that is provided in schools to young people, in hospitals and in many other public and private facilities. As part of our healthy living campaign—which is about much more than television adverts—discuss...
That is a disgraceful assertion and I hope that Mr Swinney will live to regret it. No action will be taken by my team of ministers, either wittingly or unwittingly, that will threaten public safety.
In fact, it is all of those wrapped up in one Saturday afternoon or, depending on TV rights, a Monday night, a Wednesday night or any other time that suits the TV companies.Even in tragedy, football clubs can come together.
It is equally clear that demands on the health service are increasing as the population lives longer, as health care becomes more sophisticated, and as treatments become available that address long-term conditions and individuals aspire to benefit from those treatments.
I apologise if I have misinterpreted the view of the National Union of Students on this point, but alarm bells rang when I thought that someone who is in a poorer area but has a supportive family would be given an advantage over someone who lives a mile away in a high-income area but who does not get the same level of support from his parents.
For instance, the population is ageing—we have talked about that many times. People are living longer with long-term conditions, and when some of those conditions are exacerbated people might seek help from the Ambulance Service and emergency departments.
I have travelled around Europe a great deal and I lived in Italy for a long time. There is just not such an atmosphere elsewhere—it is a peculiarly British thing.