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Colin put his finger on it: this is not about business getting everything that it wants and saying to the Government, “Get out of the way—business knows best.”
In Dundee, I think that the figure is that around 10,000 or 11,000 people are not economically active. One of the challenges is finding ways to get people into work or back into work in a constructive way.
Sometimes it was necessary to be flexible, if the weather changed and an activity wasn’t available, but they’d carry on and try a new activity and make it happen.
Our scheme is flexible and covers a wide range of physical activities. It operates on a yearly basis by reimbursing you 50% of the cost of taking part in a physical activity or range of physical activities.
Perhaps the minister will take the opportunity either to dismiss that or to confirm that it is under active consideration by the Government. 11:15 That is not under active consideration.
If that is what I get and what Carol Mochan gets, it is what every single MSP will be getting, yet the Government comes to the chamber and dismisses those concerns.