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There can occasionally be some advantages to learning from other Administrations and taking a little bit more time to get things right, or as good as we can get them in the time available.
If our young people are physically active at a young age, it is more likely that they will be physically active when they are older and throughout their lives.
Listening to organisations and asking questions about what they are linking into locally has been critical to getting money, activity and support to where it needs to be.
All that would surely fly in the face of the Scottish Government’s own national outcomes and programme for Government priorities for getting and keeping more Scots active for life.
My role is not to make ministers’ decisions for them but to highlight those intersectionalities, to get them talking to one other and, more important, to get them to do that prior to making any decisions.
There are many areas, and we will probably run out of time before I get through the full list in detail—and I am sure that I will get kicked under the table, too.