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As we mentioned in the briefing, colleges are taking measures such as having increased class sizes and reduced class times, and moving more to online delivery, to make it more efficient for them to deliver the same courses.
We will also always have a community service that can go out and actively follow someone up until their main care team is back online on a Monday or after a bank holiday.
This is not just about having a plan to do something; it is about actually delivering it when the jobs come online. Indeed, you can see that both at Grangemouth and in the oil and gas sector more generally—the issue is how you use the skills that people have now if they are moving into other fields.
The situation is going backward in the sense that the more services are online and inclusive—it could be a doctors’ surgery or any public sector local authority—the more the burden is on the public, whom we are there to serve, to really find out the information one way or another.
A private individual could have a prayer meeting in their home, which might be situated within a safe access zone. That could be advertised online for those who wish to go to it.
Simply requiring that someone does six sessions across four of 12 topics in a year, remotely or online, with nobody even offering them a pint at the end of it is not going to achieve anything.
Those submissions have all been sent separately to members and are now published online. Given the size of the panel of witnesses, I ask everyone to be succinct as possible in their questions and answers.