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Unless that changes, and we get such a climate emergency that Governments completely change their policies and introduce very high carbon prices and so on, the advance of technologies that show rapid reductions in cost will probably be much more a feature of the 2020s than CCS will.
I want to place on record our thanks to Inspector Susan Cook of Police Scotland for all her help as our liaison contact in Police Scotland. Susan is returning to front-line duties.
As you say, we need to consider how those improvements and the board’s approach can be shared more widely. There is a lot of liaison across health boards, and the Centre for Sustainable Delivery will help to share improvement and learning and put innovative practice in place.
Signalling issues were certainly affecting the Inverness line, in particular, yesterday, and the rapidity with which they are repaired is very important.
Earlier, Sharon Egan mentioned the continuation of the rapid rehousing transition funding, which has become an integral part of how we keep people out of homelessness.
We need closer industry and academic liaison—particularly in the STEM sector—to explore how we can marry academic achievement to vocational requirement and have people completing their academic experience with more practical skills and more realism about how to transfer those skills to the workplace.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many single-staffed rapid response vehicles have been in use in the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde area in each of the last five years.
As I come to the termination of my speech, I set that challenge down, along with a number of other broken promises. I will finish on one of the finest contributions to the debate, which will stick with me.