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I wonder, and some of the public wonder, whether we are doing energy the best way that we can. As I understand it, Scotland produces five times as much gas as it uses.
However, common frameworks offer the best existing model for an alternative way of managing the practical, day-to-day challenges of managing regulatory coherence in a devolved state such as the United Kingdom.
We need to have turnover and make best use of our stock so that it does not expire, so that we keep abreast of what is modern and what staff need to use by way of PPE, and so that staff are fully trained in its use and how we distribute it to people.
No one is suggesting any impropriety on the part of Governments in the response to the health crisis—everybody is trying to do their best, I am sure. The issue is much more of a downstream one.
That confidence would take many years to recover, even under the best-case scenario. I share those concerns, but I have a slightly different perspective.