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For once, alcohol has become less affordable simply because of the impact of the recession on people’s incomes. Would not the data have been collected in 2007-08 rather than in 2009?
Over the summer that dialogue will continue with our major stakeholders and after the summer recess we will come back to the Public Audit Committee with a proposed programme of performance audits, which will take into account the views of Parliament as expressed by the Public Audit Committee itself and through the Public Audit Committee as a gatekeeper for ...
Whether comments are taken up seems to revolve around the recesses, and we have to figure out some way of ensuring that that rather poor excuse for not taking up comments is not used.
The forum is considering the issue of debt in the round, but particularly how we respond to the problems that are thrown up by the recession, especially for those who lose their job as a result of the recession and through no fault of their own.
We take out that message whenever the Parliament is in recess. I have taken it to Canada and its provinces, many states in the United States, Norway, Russia and Brussels; all of Europe has been involved.
I am happy, however, to bring forward the terms of a debate after the summer recess. There will, throughout the legislative process, be plenty of opportunity to discuss the matter, for ample scrutiny and to debate many of the issues.
A lot of that is true, because we have had a deeper recession than necessary and harsher cuts than necessary, some of which have been counterproductive because they have stopped economic growth.
I had the good fortune to visit the centre during the summer recess, and it is an excellent model that is often held up by people who are aware of social care, which is about sustaining people in their homes in the community.
There was rising income inequality amid two recessions; in the latter one, that curbed Scotland’s ability—despite what Mr Findlay says, I do not know where we will print all the money—and curbed Scottish budgets from the UK.
In fact, when the current UK Government came to power in 2010, the country was coming out of recession because of a policy of growing the economy, but that approach was stalled by the Conservative chancellor’s policies.