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The first step was to undertake an internal review of transactions, which spanned the 2022-23 year and the final nine months prior to the former CEO’s departure.
—Official Report, Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee, 14 December 2022; c 4. That is excellent feedback from a group of individuals who were brought together to represent us and to have their views and opinions expressed.
However, as Liam Kerr put it, when someone goes over the prison wall, we do not wait for them to rob a bank before we arrest them. We arrest them once they have gone over the wall.
The First Minister has already flip-flopped on his positions on the pound, the Queen, and the Bank of England—all have been sacrificed on the altar of political expediency.
One figure always sticks out in my mind: it is that 27,000 additional hours were worked over the Easter bankholiday weekend. That work was done up and down the land by people who do not always process UC claims.
The unwritten message on the Scottish Government’s plans to date is that there will need to be a very substantial change in our financial priorities if we are to meet our decarbonisation targets, and that has to start now.