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Our President has regular contact with the Belgian commissioner—previously that was Karel De Gucht and it is now Cecilia Malmström—but we do not have an official way in which to influence that kind of policy.
The next question is, that amendment S3M-201.4, in the name of Des McNulty, which seeks to amend motion S3M-201, in the name of Derek Brownlee, on council tax, be agreed to.
We are going to try and help you to de-risk it.” That would really help, I hope—I am looking at Ian Hughes here—or at least it might help to galvanise and support the SME sector to take on more people, as well as people who are in year 1, doing practical training.
Right across the public sector—across NHS boards, in schools, in the police and in universities—a de facto policy of gender self-identification has been introduced when it comes to accessing washing, changing and toileting facilities.
I was about to say that I think there is a necessary future for oil and gas in Scotland and the UK but that it is dwindling and the cessation of production that we are talking about means that fields such as Rosebank and Jackdaw are, frankly, de minimis in relation to global production.