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Despite the Government continuing to promise to reduce the gap by at least half, the employment rate for disabled people still sits as low as 47.8 per cent, which compares with 81.3 per cent for those who are not disabled.
I do not agree with the cabinet secretary’s defining of this issue as being one of great magnitude, and certainly not when it is compared with the example that she just cited, which was the proposal to anonymise the child victims of murder.
I disagree with Mr Findlay—I think that there are comparable age-restricted products in licensing schemes in Scotland, such as the scheme for air weapons, which align the permitted age to purchase the product with the minimum age for licensing.
Possibly the simplest way to explain the challenge that we face right now is to compare it to a race. In one lane we have vaccines, and our job is to ensure that they run as fast as possible.
That certainly adds to the sense that tier 2 for Inverclyde has not been fully considered or accepted compared with elsewhere in Scotland. Those things are all fully considered.