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I do not know whether that is because it has just taken too long to get through the weeds in which we seem to be slightly lost and get some commitment to future policy—it is difficult to say.
The resilience fund was all about keeping the lights on and the wellbeing fund was about getting small sums of money out at the start to people in communities who were most in need, to get supplies and so on.
In the future, we would want to be more involved in that work, but for trans people, the issue is how to get through their daily lives instead of having some massive focus on getting on to a board.
We are aware of the potential of algorithmic learning to target and profile individual voters based on their social media activity and their consumer activity online, which can consequently be used for specific messaging.
One of the biggest challenges is getting sufficient activity to maintain the downward trend, but we are working with local stakeholders to develop those models and schemes.
Through the success of the vaccination programme, we have been able to lift many Covid restrictions, and that has allowed individuals and businesses to get back to something much more like normality.
We support what the NFUS has been quite clear about—the cabinet secretary has also said this—which is that we can all get behind and be proud of active and productive farming in line with our environmental constraints and our social aims and ambitions for vibrant communities.