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Ask any college principal, and that is what they will tell you.Let me get this right. In the morning, Nicola Sturgeon will deal with Scotland’s biggest decision for 300 years.
Many of the refugees from those countries have been stuck in temporary accommodation not just for months but for years, with only £8 a week on which to get by. Many cannot get a school for their children and are not legally allowed to work.
I want to allude to what the cabinet secretary said about the Scottish Government and SDI’s work in Paris. There was a St Andrew’s day activity there last year, on which we made a real effort to get feedback from all the UK and Scottish companies that were present at the embassy.
We could not possibly have a system whereby everybody who obtained a dog had to go before a group of people to get a licence, as they would to get a licence to drive a taxi.
However, we cannot pass on money that we do not get. That is correct. I flagged up the higher proportion of horizon 2020 funding that we get for research in Scotland compared with south of the border.
Professor Gerry McCartney told us plainly that “rising mortality for our poorest communities will get worse, and ... get worse faster, if those challenges are not addressed properly.”