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I would include many elderly people living in the community in that, because in some cases breakfast or lunch clubs keep people living independently in the community and save us tremendous amounts of money in hospital and residential services.
It is true that there is a trade-off, but the women's organisations always defend their positions. Some of us could live well with such funding sources—we have done so in the past.
There are no plans to maintain the ban on exports of live farm animals from Scotland. The European Court of Justice has confirmed that a unilateral ban on live exports would be illegal.
No extra expense is incurred—Edinburgh is where we are. If a person happens to live in Shetland, it costs them a lot of money to come to Edinburgh; if a person lives in Bathgate, it costs them less money to come.
Those of us who have worked among cattle all our lives realise that, in some cases, they are extremely large and extremely aggressive, and that they will take action that surprises many people.
No, that is right, but we could put a nice cover on it and it might attract a few people to glance at it. Their lives might be changed when they open the covers—you never know.