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Jura has all the problems that Islay has and some extra ones. Our cost of living is far higher than that on Islay, as we have the extra and considerable cost of bringing everything over on the ferry.
We are seeing investment: the board took the decision last year to invest £3.1 million across our sites plus an extra £1 million in the A and E departments.
We have had clarity that it does not mean 100,000 extra people. Possibly, it is 100,000 claimants, which means that, as people can make multiple claims, the number of people might be lower than that.
Therefore, straight to the core is seen to be better.We are not against the AIB getting certain extra things. We agree with quite a few things in the bill, such as the recall of sequestration where there are sufficient funds to pay creditors.
We do not know whether Scotland has lost more public sector jobs than other areas of the UK, so we are simply not able to answer the question.Overall, if we are shifting from revenue to capital and that is introducing extra pressure on public sector budgets and putting extra pressure on employment, all that we are do...
Sometimes, however, we will have to go the extra mile with some young people, which is where the tracking and monitoring that build on the school leaver destination figures come in.
Patrick Layden talked about adding an extra convention. I can see the possibility not of adding an extra convention but of substituting our own UK, home-made bill of rights for the Human Rights Act 1998.