Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and a very special welcome if you're new here. My name is Jen. I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and I'm on WW Personal Points. Happy Saturday, it is Saturday, so it is massive grocery haul day. I went to three stores. We have a stock up haul, lots of new food find, so if you're excited, give this video a big huge thumbs up. Make sure you're subscribed and your bell notification is turned on because I upload a grocery haul every Saturday and five videos every single week. Check out the description box down below for nutrition coaching, where I offer personalized to you macros and calories. I cannot recommend this enough for success on your weight loss journey and I have one-on-one coaching if you would like to chat with me directly. Links, discounts to all my favorite things and lastly my Facebook group, come on over, join us there, are all down in that description box. So we have a grocery haul. Let's jump in. So here's this week's massive grocery haul. I actually went to three separate stores this week. I did my big stock up haul at Costco. I went to Whole Foods because Whole Foods is really close to Costco and then I made a quick stop in at Sprout. So let's go ahead and jump in to what I picked up at Whole Foods first. So I saw these crackers. They were new from the brand Back to Nature. I really, really like this brand. I have their Rosemary crackers that are delicious with hummus and they have these dipper crisps and this is the white cheddar flavor. They also had a rosemary and garlic flavor but since I have the crackers I decided to go ahead and get the cheddar. I thought that these would be really good with hummus and I picked up a dip at Costco I'm pretty excited about that we can use these crisps for. I decided to grab some Bonza rice. I don't need a lot of rice so I thought that this would be a good alternative because there's some protein in there. 11 grams of protein. I really like the Bonza pasta. I like the Bonza mac and cheese and they actually had the garlic and olive oil rice and I thought that this would be a great side dish. I did pick up some pre-cooked hard-boiled eggs. These are just super convenient. Both Troy and I love hard-boiled eggs and it just makes for a super fast quick snack. They also have their little cups of the whole milk good culture on sale three for $5. That's a really, really good deal. Pre-portioned out ready to go so I did pick up three of those. I also got some instant mashed potatoes. This is something we like having on hand. It makes a really fast side dish for lunch or dinner and this is just the 365, the Whole Foods brand. I needed some tomato paste for a recipe as well as some tomato sauce. This sounded really good. Just some unsweetened green tea. I thought that I could put a little bit of honey in here and it was on sale. And then lastly at Whole Foods, I grabbed some true whip. This is my favorite whip topping. I like the true whip skinny. It has much better ingredients than most of the other whip toppings and I actually needed this for my meal prep. That wasn't everything. Sorry, one more thing from Whole Foods. This four pack of Siggy's yogurt. This was on sale and you know I love Siggy's yogurt. This particular one has 16 grams of protein. Sprouts has the best produce in my opinion. So I did a lot of produce shopping there. Of course I grabbed some more of the Persian cucumbers. Troy and I love these. They are the best crunchy little cucumber.  Some blueberries and two packs of strawberries for my dessert meal prep. I'm making this really decadent kind of fruit salad and meal prep. We'll go over what's on my menu for dinner and meal prep for the week after the grocery haul. I needed some hearts of romaine salad mix for my lunch meal prep. Also some fresh cilantro and some little grape tomatoes. Cream cheese, which is for my dessert meal prep recipe. This was the only one that they had at Sprouts so I went ahead and picked that up. I've seen these the last couple of times I've been there and didn't grab them. And I was pretty hungry between all of my errands. Actually about three packs, but one of them is missing. This is the Catalina Crunch cereal. What I was excited about is this cereal has 11 grams of protein. So I grabbed one fruity, one chocolate peanut butter and then a cinnamon one or like a cinnamon toast one. That's the one I ate already, so good. I shared it on my Instagram, 10 out of 10 would recommend. Two points per little pack and 110 calories. Also they had some new protein bars that I've never seen at Sprouts. They actually have a new to Sprouts section. So I always check that out when I'm there. And this is the brand all real. I grabbed the chocolate sea salt. They had a cookie dough one and a peanut butter one I believe, 20 grams of protein. And I thought that I would give it a try. I can feel that it's a little firmer bar, maybe like a quest bar consistency. It's 218 calories. And again, I just thought that I would try it. They were $3 a piece, so I only picked up one. And lastly, moving into Costco. Here in the back, you can see that I picked up toilet paper because we always buy our toilet paper at Costco. I restocked my makeup remover wipes. I don't need them necessarily, but they were on coupon for 10.99 for 180 wipes. I always say these are my favorite because they're really wet. So they take off your makeup really well. I use them for swatches and things on my beauty channel so I picked up another box. Dog treats, because what shopping trip doesn't include dog treats? These are the lamb sticks from the brand Dog Delights. These have really good ingredients and my dogs really like these. I picked up the pork ones for them last time. I went to Costco 11.99 for a huge bag. Troy asked for some more heartburn medicine. I will tell you guys a little NSV here. Since I've lost so much weight, I do not have heartburn at all anymore. So I do not take any heartburn medication, which is really exciting. Troy takes it due to multiple things, not weight related but other issues that result in heartburn for him. So I did pick up another box. Garbage bags because we were almost out in such a great deal at Costco. These are our favorite chicken nuggets. Actually Troy really likes these, which says a lot because he's not a big chicken nugget person and he loves these. These are the Just Bear nuggets. They have not had these the last couple of times I've been at Costco. So I saw them and I grabbed them because we are almost out of the bag I bought when we first moved here. They are Chick-fil-A nugget dupe, much healthier. I throw them in my air fryer. Absolutely delicious on a wrap and a salad, dipped in honey mustard. I love them, so I picked up another bag. And then I did get Troy his favorite salad. This is only around in the summer. So whenever I go to Costco and it's there, I like to pick it up. My Costco had the eight in one multi-benefit bites for dogs. These are the ones that help with hip, joint, digestive health. I heard that they were getting rid of these. They were on sale for $23.99. So I went ahead and picked them up. It's a 250 count. I know that I just bought a bag at Sam's Club but they will last. My dogs take them every morning. I think six of these go out the door every morning between the three dogs. So I picked them up because they were on sale and just in case they are discontinued. Some A1 for Troy. We are almost out and this is such a great deal. Less than $10 for two huge jars. And then this is the dip I was talking about. I had to have this. It sounds so good. This is the Fried Pickle and Ranch dip. And I thought this would be really good with chips, crackers. It was only, I think, $5.99. There is 50 calories per serving, which is not bad at all. I'm just really excited to try it. It sounds really good and kind of sounds like a good summer treat. I did grab a Master Carved Ham. Troy likes having whole ham on hand. He just dices this up and has it for lunch or for snack. And then I saw these bowls and you guys know I love kitchen, everything. These are so adorable. They're a little bit bigger than my bowls I use in my meal prep all the time. So they're kind of a mix between a regular size bowl and a small bowl. They're on sale for $9.99 for six of them. So of course I couldn't pass them out. They actually had Fair Life at my Costco, the Salted Caramel. So of course I picked up a case. I almost picked up two, but you guys saw if you follow me on Instagram that my protein shake stash is quite large and I don't really have room for a second case. So I did go ahead and just get one. Another four pack of the Thomas English Muffins. Troy's really been liking having these for breakfast for breakfast sandwiches.  I did grab some bananas. I'm going to cut these up and freeze them for my protein shakes and my smoothies. And then I picked up three packs of raspberries. They were less than $4 a pack, which is such a great deal. These were I think $6 or $7 at Whole Foods. So I knew that I could get them for a better deal at Costco. And I'm glad that I waited. I have been loving raspberries. And then of course some clothing things that they had on really, really good sale. So I have you propped up on my bowl so I can show you the clothes. It's easier than just holding the camera because you really can't see what they look like. But the first thing are these biker shorts. These were on sale or clearance for $9.99. I did go ahead and get a size medium. I was going to get a large, but they didn't have any. So I went with the medium and they do have pockets which of course I appreciate, especially when I'm walking to the gym I can throw my key to our gate for our gated community in there. My gloves for lifting weights. So I picked up a pair of those. And then all of my tank tops that I own are way too big. I actually need to take them all to Goodwill because they're like a dress on me. And this was a really good deal. $11.99 for three ribbed tank tops from the brand Dan skin. This is a size large. There's a navy, a white and a pink. And I thought that was such a good deal. And then lastly also on sale for $8.99 was this two pack of t-shirts from the brand Eco threats. These are really, really thin t-shirts. And I thought these would be perfect for summer. I think the animal print one is so cute because we know I love animal print. And then it also came with a black one as well. I also grabbed a case of Coke diet Coke for Troy and a case of course light for Troy which he's already put away out in our garage fridge. So that is everything in this week's massive grocery haul. Let's go ahead and jump into what's on my menu for dinners and what you'll see Monday for meal prep. So here's what's on my menu for the week. We have a pretty busy weekend. We're actually going next door to my neighbors for a little get together on Saturday. And then we have dinner with my in-laws on Sunday. So I really don't start cooking until Monday. In Monday I'm making pineapple barbecue meatballs. You will see this recipe in Wednesdays what I eat in a day. So stay tuned for that. Tuesday is going to be a leftover night. Wednesday I'm making a cold pasta salad, a BLT pasta salad. This is just perfect for the hot summer days. We'll do kebabs on Thursday and then Friday is always a leftover night. So we can eat up everything from earlier in the week. And here's what you'll be seeing on Monday's meal prep. I'm very excited for these recipes. For breakfast this next week I'm making maple brown sugar baked oatmeal. I haven't made baked oatmeal in so long and I've been craving it. And then for lunch I'm doing pizza chaffles. I'm really excited for this. I also haven't made chaffles in a hot minute. And then for dessert we're doing a red, white and blue cheesecake salad. This is going to be so perfect for summer. Especially if you have barbecues, cookouts, get-togethers coming up. You're going to want to make this recipe. So stay tuned on Monday for all three recipes in meal prep. Thank you for joining me for this week's WW grocery haul. I hope you enjoyed seeing my massive, massive stock up haul from three stores. Lots of new food finds. I cannot wait for this week's recipes. They sound so good. Packed with protein, delicious. Very, very excited. So if you're excited too, give this video a thumbs up. Subscribe if you're not. I'd love, love, love to have you here. And don't forget we do a grocery haul every Saturday. So make sure you're subscribed and your bell is turned on. Check out that description box down below for nutrition coaching. Links and discounts to my favorite things. 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Hi, I'm Liz Wade and I'm Adam Novus from Spotlight and it's the fourth of July Or there's another name for it too, Adam. What's that? Independence Day, that's correct in the United States. We celebrate our independence day on July 4th So that's probably why you'll hear a lot of people say that they celebrate the 4th of July even though it's the 4th of July All around the world. Yes, and today we are going to tell you about five things that people do on the 4th of July Independence Day, I don't how are we supposed to refer to this? Well, now you know Anyway, join us for five things that US people do on the 4th of July I've got the first one for you people love to talk about Freedom. Yeah, they do. Freedom is a big deal in the United States It started way back in 1776 before the country was even founded. It was a group of colonies or separate States almost and they all decided They don't want to be ruled by Great Britain or any other country. They want their freedom They want their freedom. They want to be independent So a bunch of people got together and they signed the Declaration of Independence, which is why we call July 4th Independence Day The second thing that people do on the 4th of July or Independence Day is wear red white and blue Why and well, those are the colors of the United States flag So we have red white and blue and people really love to Display the flag and they love to wear the colors so that they are kind of representing the United States I even have seen people wear swimming suits or Hats or they will put the American flag or red white and blue on any kind of clothing. Yes I or even just the colors I will admit that I have actually bought my family like special 4th of July clothes Before not every year so that we can celebrate the holiday properly and a lot of people will also decorate their houses in fantastic ways, maybe huge buntings of Red white and blue or a gigantic American flag. Yeah, it's a it's a big day that even people who aren't Super patriotic still sometimes participate in in ways of getting dressed up. Yes The third thing that people love to do to celebrate Independence Day is to get together with friends and family and Have a party Liz. Do you like to get together and what do you do when you do? 4th of July celebrations, yes every 4th of July we gather together with some friends and family and we we go to a parade together and then we go and we have a breakfast together So there's pancakes and sausages. I don't know if those are really American foods but we go get together and then Yeah, just have a party and then later in the day we with my family or maybe other families Then we also have maybe barbecue. We barbecue, which is a yeah on a grill So barbecue is one of those weird words that can mean many different things Depending on where you are in the United States and here it could mean Just doing something on the grill. Yeah cooking outside. Yeah, I think a lot of people have that holiday off from work So it's a great time to get together with family and friends. Yeah The fourth thing that people in the United States will do on the 4th of July or Independence Day is Go to the water now in Michigan. We are surrounded by the Great Lakes So it's very easy for us to go to the water There's a very common thing to do in the Midwest but all across the United States people will find water to Go on a boat to go to a cottage to just lay out on an inner tube or down a river People love to go to the water. Yeah, I live close to the water But on the 4th of July because everyone else goes to the water. I often stay away from the water But it is a lot of fun when the weather is great to go out and we don't own a boat But it's always fun to kind of go water skiing or tubing behind a boat Which can be fun as I get older. I don't do as much of the adventurous sport But it is fun to get together with people at the water. There's something special about it Right and when you get tired of all that beautiful nature and the sound of waves, there's always Fireworks the fifth thing that people do in the United States to celebrate the 4th of July is they celebrate fireworks It's very popular cities often have big displays where people gather for hours earlier as the sunset and they have amazing fireworks displays shot into the air and For a long time long time. Yeah, it feels like they've gotten more and more extravagant Over the years. I'm not a big fan of waiting in crowds. I do like fireworks Liz, do you like fireworks? No, I do not like fireworks See this is they they last so long and they're so loud and uh, honestly, I think they're a little scary But I know that people around the world love fireworks and some people love them so much adam That if they can't go to a city to experience a grand firework display Um people like uh who live in an area where they have their own land They can set off their own backyard fireworks But that's actually pretty dangerous in the united states last year in 2020 Setting off backyard fireworks 18 people died setting off backyard fireworks and over 15 000 were treated for injuries as they were doing fireworks, so Fireworks something people do all over the united states on the fourth of july But something that they often get hurt doing Yes, and often hospital people don't have that day off, so they have to go and treat all those people Well, if you're going to set off any fireworks in the united states, I guess our our warning is be safe So those are five things that people in the united states do to celebrate independence day Do you have an independence day in the country where you live? Let us know how you celebrate it in the comments below Be sure to subscribe hit the little bell so that you always get a notification when there's a new video We hope that you enjoyed this video You can check out many more of our us culture and travel videos in one of the playlists that you can see If you want to become a member of this channel, just click join to learn more Listen watch practice learn spotlight out


Well, I mean, magical thinking is sort of necessary for the suspending of disbelief in order to have faith in the first place, isn't it? I mean, magical thinking in a managed way is part of the whole trip, isn't it? I don't perceive magical thinking in religion as the same thing, because magical thinking, magic is trying to, and I forgot who said this, I'm quoting somebody here, magic is an attempt to control the Godhead. Magic is a way to control God. Right, it's about will. Yeah. Faith is the opposite. Got it. Faith is acceptance. Yeah. So it's magical thinking is actually completely antithetical to my faith.


We covered Palomar Observatory's Newswiki Transient Facility, ZTF for short, in our 2016 review. It's a robotic camera with the ability to capture hundreds of thousands of stars and galaxies in a single shot. In 2017, ZTF took its first image of the sky, an event astronomers refer to as first light. This first light image of Orion is a taste of what's to come. Every night, ZTF will scan a large portion of the northern sky, discovering objects that erupt, move, or vary in brightness, including asteroids, comets, and supernova. Each image is more than 24,000 by 24,000 pixels, and 4 terabytes of data will be collected each night. ZTF's science survey phase is scheduled to begin in February.


Your keynote at Agile India is sabotaging and transformation the myriad of ways an organization inhibits transformation. What can people expect to take away from that? Well, I think if they're in the business of trying to get their organization to change, I think they're going to sort of understand some of the things I've run across. I think to be able to relate to them as well. So these are basically things I've run across in my consulting where I've made some radical changes yet comes out of the woodwork, people who want to stop it from happening. It's threatening in some way or the other. So I'm going to talk about the various sources of these threats. Some of them are very active, some of them are kind of passive. Some are just strictly organizational culture. A little bit of how I tend to mitigate these. You can never really get rid of them, but you can sort of handle them and still get your transformation and put in place. So it's basically things I've experienced in trying to make changes and sort of the roadblocks have been thrown in front of me.


This exercise went really well. It was many months of hard work by our phase manager, Cap and Tillman. He put in countless hours to combine ops, maintenance, logistics, mums, all those different units to have a successful, large-scale exercise between us and the 34th, which led to over 37 sorties flowing in about 138 hours. They incumbent on the crew and white lead to figure out a solution to safely recover Jack in that environment without busting any acceptable levels of risk and keeping everyone safe.


Here I want to talk about your decision-making when you're in a one-on-one situation with the goalkeeper. So first of all, first of all, when you're in this situation, you have to be positive. You have to think, yes, this is a goal I'm going to score right now. Okay, a lot of us get in this situation and we're like, I don't know what to do and it's hesitation and he gets too close, cuts down our angles and we make it easier on him. Okay, so what I want you to think in your mind is think, yes, this is a goal. Focus on the finishing. Don't think about anything negative. Don't think about the goalkeeper is going to save it. Don't think about, I don't know what to do.  I want to give you three options when you're in this situation. Okay, so when you're here, yeah, if you really want, you can blast it as hard as you want, but that's not really going to increase your chances of scoring in these one-on-one situations. So first word I want you to think about is just passing it into a corner. Okay, so when I come in here, if he's giving me a little angle, if I can see space in one of the corners, I want to pass it there. So remember in the passing tutorial playing the ball, when we talked about the shape of your pass. Okay, so if I'm shaping my pass this way with inside curl and I'm trying to put it to that corner, that's pretty easy for him to save as opposed to if I'm shaping it here. So it's almost going outside of the post and I'm putting it into that corner. That's going to increase my chances of scoring that type of finish. Okay, same thing goes if you want to use the outside of your foot. Okay, so if I wanted to use the outside, if I'm going that way, that's easy for him to save if he's ready. Okay, so instead, if I wanted to go there with my left foot, I would probably use the outside of my left or I could use the inside of my left or I could use the outside of my right. Here, if I want to go to this side, yes, I could use the outside of my right into that corner or I could use the outside of my left, something like that. So think about the shape of your finish like we did in the passing tutorial to increase your chances of scoring that type of finish. The next type of finish I want to think about in this situation is when you're trying to create an angle but he's coming out and it's a little too tight and he's going down to the ground and you're going to do something like that, go over him.  I almost want to fake like it's a shot, fake like I'm going to almost like blast it at him or try to put it under him, okay, so it's like I'm here and I'm getting him to commit to the shot and then I'm flicking it over him. Okay, that's a really good finish in a one-on-one situations. The last thing I want to talk about is going around the keeper. So play me a ball, so say I receive it, I'm running at pace, he's running out to meet me again. It's just a touch away and pass it into the back of the net. Okay, so you're going to have to get your timing right. If I do it too late, play me again, so if I hesitate in this position and I do it too late, he's going to win the ball like that. So I want to do it a bit early and again, like the fake shot on the chip.  You want to try to get him to go down to ground early so he can touch it around him and finish the goal. So those are three ideas to think about when you're in a one-on-one situation with the keeper. Hey, what's going on? This is Dylan Tubi of Progressive Soccer Training. I hope you enjoyed that video. This was actually a look into the new program I'm releasing, the Match Winner Method. Become a game changer, improve your performances and maximize your match stats in 21 days. This program will be released on December 21st. Please subscribe to my channel for updates and related information.


And so we explain this with frequency, okay? And we have a special way of teaching math. So like teachers are flabbergasted. That's the proper word, right? Because they come to our, the class, they say, how are these kids able to, when we were teaching them, they would even talk to us and when we approached them, they screamed, right? And we tried the two years to get these kids to even just talk. And now we came to the class and they're leading the classroom. They're teaching the kids, what the heck is going on? They wouldn't, they can't believe what is going on. So we have a book, it's in the background. It's called ADHD and autism transforming disability to genius, all right? So I wrote that book with the teacher, with the educator who is using our frequencies. So this is brand new. As we explain this with frequency, okay? And we have a special way of teaching math. So like teachers are flabbergasted. That's the proper word, right? Because they come to our, the class, they say, how are these kids able to, when we were teaching them, they would even talk to us and when we approached them, they screamed, right? And we tried the two years to get these kids to even just talk. And now we came to the class and they're leading the classroom. They're teaching the kids, what the heck is going on? They wouldn't, they can't believe what is going on. So we have a book, it's in the background. It's called ADHD and autism transforming disability to genius, all right? So I wrote that book with the teacher, with the educator who is using our frequencies. So this is brand new.


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from San Jose, California in the heart of Silicon Valley. It's theCUBE, covering QuickBooks Connect 2016, sponsored by Intuit QuickBooks. Now, here are your hosts, Jeff Frick and John Walls. And welcome back to San Jose here as theCUBE continues our coverage of QuickBooks Connect 2016, the San Jose Convention Center. We'll be here today and tomorrow when they're looking forward to having you along for the ride with me is Jeff Frick. Jeff, good to see you as always, sir. Absolutely, great show. We're now joined by Steve Yusko, who is with PayPal. He's the VP and GM of the North American Distribution. Steve, thanks for joining us. Good to see you today. Great to be here. Hey, things are good at PayPal, right? I mean, Ernie's report was good. You've got some new products to talk about here in terms of your relationship with Intuit. So, no wonder you're smiling these days, huh? Well, actually, I'm just smiling because you guys are here. We're happy to be here. We know better than that. No, it was, you know, we announced earnings last week. It was great. Company's growing. We did $26 billion in mobile payments last quarter. We're on track to do over $100 billion in mobile payments over the next 12 months, which is just astronomical. We've added customers at an amazing clip, 192 million active customers globally. So, you know, it's just an exciting time, obviously, in payments. It's an exciting time in technology, but at PayPal, what we're seeing is everywhere we do business, the investments that we've made in the product, in the experience have really started to pay off because our customers love it. Well, it's no surprise you guys are here, right? I mean, this is your roots, right? Absolutely. All about small business. Announcement about the, I guess, continuation of your relationship or really the polishing of it because you're already doing some things in terms of what you were enabling on the QuickBooks platform, but this crystallizes that. Talk about that a little bit. Yeah, you know, I like to think of our two companies into it and PayPal is sharing a lot of the same roots. We're companies that have built technology platforms that help small businesses start, grow, and manage their businesses. And for years, many Intuit customers have been PayPal customers. But when they accept PayPal payments, they had to do it through a plug-in or they had to manually reconcile things. We hear it all the time. But we're announcing today that we will be integrating PayPal into QuickBooks Online so that for the e-invoice product, you're going to be able to have your PayPal transactions seamlessly integrated. Reconciles in real-time, customers will be able to pay with balance, with PayPal, or with credit card, and it's all there. So your accountants, at the end of the year, it comes from one place and it just takes a great experience and it makes it even better. This is something you've rolled out in Australia, right? That's right, right, that's right. I mean, what did you see there that beige you think? Yeah, this is a home run. This is going to work on a much broader scale. You know this, one of the things that is really important to small businesses is getting paid, right? 64% of small businesses, you'd think the number's higher than that, but 64% of small businesses have invoices outstanding for more than 60 days. And if you've got larger customers, it can be even longer than 90 days. That could kill you, right? That could kill them. Absolutely, it starves your cash flow, right? And in Australia, we rolled this out. We saw that the average time that it took to have an invoice paid went from 21 days down to just over seven days for the folks paying with PayPal. Now that's a dramatic change. I mean, any way you look at it. I mean, I had to look at the number twice, to be perfectly honest with you, but for a small business, man, that's the difference between success and failure, right? And when you think about it on the other side of it, from the account's perspective, time. Time is of the essence. And when you simplify that integration so that all your information is in one place, it makes their job easier as well. And so this is an example where it's really a win, win, win. It's a win for the business. It's a win for the business's customers. And it's a win for all the partners that surround that ecosystem that help those businesses thrive. Steve, you talked about mobile and the growth of mobile payments. And we talk about mobile all the time and we're on our machines all the time, but I don't know if the people really get it. I wonder if you could share some insight as to seeing how the growth of mobile is really taken over not only in the United States, but probably even more internationally. Yeah, you know, the numbers are just mind-boggling when you look at the change over the years. I remember a couple years ago when mobile transaction volume was 1% of what we saw. Now it's 30 plus percent and growing every single quarter. Like I said earlier, we did $26 billion in mobile transaction volume in the last quarter on track to do over 100 billion in the next 12 months. Those are astonishing numbers. And it hides a lot of the amazing changes that are happening in the way that people run their lives and conduct business. And the truth is, is that people are interacting with that device all the time. All the time. There's studies that show that the average person has their mobile device within 18 inches of their body 24 hours a day. My wife makes me take it out of the room so it doesn't buzz in the middle of the night. But practically speaking, what that means is if you don't have a great mobile experience, then you don't have a great customer experience. And that's just the reality. And we're very proud of the investments that we've made at PayPal in that mobile experience. And so when you're able to check out, you hit that PayPal button, people know, they can expect that what's coming is a seamless checkout experience that has far fewer keystrokes that with the use of OneTouch, we already know who you are. We already know your information.  So translate that now to QuickBooks and what you're doing for small businesses. What are you seeing in terms of trends and small business and needing to be much more present in the mobile space? And then how did you adapt that to the new offering? And where do you think it's going to go? Because if we're seeing a 4x growth. In terms of your business, what does that mean for small business over the next three, four, five years? You know, look, the world's getting more complicated. But customers' expectations are that things are going to be more simple. And for small businesses, they don't have time to be thinking about how do I change this technology integration or structure my website to look like that. They want to focus on their products or their services and their customers. And creating that great experience. And so what we're doing is we're extracting that complexity by building great technology that's just there. And so when you send out an e-invoice now, it's going to have that PayPal button. And so your customers are going to have that option. And they're going to be able, as we invest in the product every single day, every single month, quarter of a year, all those updates are going to be there. Seamlessly integrated, always ready so that you're going to be able to benefit as a small business from the millions of dollars that we spend in creating those seamless checkout experiences for your customers. It's really interesting how the cloud and SaaS applications on the cloud have really enabled people like you, people like Intuit, to deliver massive horsepower, scalability, security, thousands of engineering hours behind the scenes, building those products that I, as SMB's mom and pop shop, can now bring to bear on helping me get my business going, improving my customer satisfaction, improving my payments. Very different model than the old days where you load it up on the desktop and really it enables this ecosystem, as we see around us, to contribute all across the board where there's specialties, special opportunities, niche opportunities to complete that whole infrastructure. There's no doubt and what we believe is that we want to create flexibility and optionality for our customers, whether those are sellers, merchants, whether those are consumers, and it's just got to be there for you. It's got to be ready and that was, that's the beautiful thing about this one touch experience that we talked about earlier, is that we decided that this was something that was very important to customers that they could check out seamlessly. We know because you're using your device, we know that it's you, so we could sort of preload that and be ready for you when you're ready to check out and we just deployed it at scale, so it's there. And just that power now becomes the power for sellers all over the world who are offering PayPal to the 192 million customers out there who are looking for it. Yeah, we heard from Brad Smith earlier today on the keynote stage, talking about one of the keys to growth being the ecosystem, right, the global ecosystem and looking for new partnerships, looking for new relationships. So how do you see that in terms of PayPal, in terms of global reach, in terms of QuickBooks, putting all those things together and creating this, I guess, more massive community or better relationships in order for people to start and grow and, I guess, sustain their businesses? Yeah, I mean, Brad had it right. I mean, look, the strength is in partnerships. We have a long history of our relationship with Intuit. You may have seen recently some of the announcement that PayPal has made about partnerships with Visa and MasterCard and, you know, look, we know that these are great companies that have great customers and great customer experiences and it benefits all of us to work together to deliver that value to the ecosystem so that everybody benefits. You know, Intuit's been doing a great job of that for years and we're very excited to be here today to announce this new extension of our partnership with them. So Steve, I wanted to shift gears a little bit. We're almost out of time, but you're USMC, Marine Corps. You're raw. You're raw. And now you've got a built a successful career in tech. So, four guys in the service and gals that are coming out want to get into technology. I wonder if you can share a little bit about your experience, how did that transition work? And then specifically, what kind of things should they look for, services, groups, meetups, et cetera, to help them make that transition because they can't get enough people in technology. We need more great people. What would you say? That's a great question. By the way, I'll tell you, the great irony is that when my hair would grow, I had to cut it. And now that I'm allowed to grow it, it won't grow. What happened? Not just the way things work. No, you know, at PayPal, one of the pillars of our culture that we believe very strongly in is in diversity and inclusion. And so we've launched an initiative to create a veterans organization. We call it SERV.  They think about your career and developing you and creating opportunities for you. And that comes from connections that you have to name and understand and really nurture. This is one of them. We have several of them at PayPal. And I'm particularly interested in veterans community because you're right. Technology is an industry that, it's a young industry, but it's built around a specific set of proficiencies. And a lot of times people have difficulty translating what you do in the military into what folks do in the technology industry. But if you just look a couple levels beyond that surface layer, you find that there's tremendous consistency there and overlap. And we've had a great success at PayPal, creating an environment that nurtures and accepts veterans and we're very excited about the opportunities to continue doing that. Let's see if we want to commend you for that. And thank you for your service. But thank you for serving those as well who have followed in your footsteps. So congratulations on that front. Thank you. And good week for you. Thanks for joining us here at QuickBooks. We appreciate the time. Thanks, Jens. You bet Steve Fusco from PayPal. Back with more here from San Jose. And just a moment. I'm watching theCUBE.


I welcome this opportunity to update Parliament in progress towards the delivery of the Fair Start Scotland Employment Support Service, one of the first powers that was devolved under the 2016 Scotland Act. That is an important milestone for employment support here in Scotland. It is an opportunity to make employment services work differently and more effectively for the people of Scotland. The Scottish Government is already using new powers to deliver one-year transitional employment support services, and those are already helping unemployed people with health conditions and disabilities across the country to find work and to stay in work. Those services are providing a continuity of support while we progress towards delivering Fair Start Scotland from April 2018. We all understand the health, social and economic benefits from getting more people into good, rewarding and fair work. That is at heart of our ambitions for delivering inclusive economic growth. That ambition is laid out in our economic and labour market strategies and demonstrated through our commitment to the fair work agenda being promoted by the Fair Work Convention. That ambition is also writ through Fair Start Scotland as well. Today, following the conclusion of our rigorous and open procurement process, I can announce that we have signed contracts for up to five years to deliver Fair Start Scotland from April of next year. Fair Start Scotland will provide tailored, person-centred support to a minimum of 38,000 people who are further removed from the labour market and for whom work is a realistic prospect. Before I outline the successful bid, I thank all the organisations that have taken part in the process. Engaging in any procurement process requires a significant investment. I know that those who have secured those contracts will be pleased to others who feel that they have missed out. Every bid received showed the real commitment, dedication and desire of organisations in the public, private and third sectors to help to support people into work. I appreciate the work that all those involved have put into the process. In announcing who has been successful today, I am confident that we have been able to award contracts to a range of providers that have demonstrated strong collaborative proposals that would deliver our shared ambitions. Let me now outline the detail of the nine contracts that I am announcing today. The contract area 1 covers the city of Glasgow. The contract has been awarded to people plus group limited to be delivered in partnership with Remploy and third sector partners Momentum Skills and the Lenox partnership. The estimated value of the contract is £19.1 million. The contract area 2 covers the north and south Lanarkshire local authority areas. The contract has been awarded to Remploy Ltd to be delivered in partnership with third sector partners Enable Scotland and Roots to Work South. The estimated value of the contract is £12.6 million. The contract area 3 is Tayside and covers Perthton-Conross, Angus and Dundee. The contract has been awarded to Remploy Ltd to be delivered in partnership with third sector partners Rathbone Training and The Wisegroup. The estimated value of the contract is £7.3 million. The contract area 4 is Forth Valley and covers the Falkirk, Stirling and Cliquemannanshire local authority areas. The contract has been awarded to Falkirk Council to be delivered in partnership with public sector partners Cliquemannanshire Council, Stirling Council and NHS Forth Valley. The estimated value of the contract is £5 million. The contract area 5 is East and covers Edinburgh, Midlothian, East and West Lothian, Fife and the Borders. The contract has been awarded to StartScotland Ltd to be delivered in partnership with Working Links, Triage and the third sector partner Momentum Scotland. The estimated value of the contract is £21.3 million. The contract area 6 is South West and covers Dumfries and Galloway and the three Ayrshire local authority areas. The contract has been awarded to StartScotland Ltd to be delivered in partnership with Working Links and the third sector partners Rathbone Training, The Lenox partnership and The Wise Group. The estimated value of the contract is £10.1 million. The contract area 7 is North East and covers Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire local authority areas. The contract has been awarded to third sector organisation Momentum Scotland to be delivered in partnership with LifeSkill Centres Ltd and Enterprise Mentoring Ltd. The contract will be delivered alongside third sector partners Enable Scotland, Aberdeen and Foyay and the Scottish Association for Mental Health. The estimated value of the contract is £5.6 million. The contract area 8 is Highlands and Islands and covers Argyllun Bute, Elin Siar, Highland, Murray, Orkney and Shelland. The contract has been awarded to People Plus Ltd. The contract will be delivered in partnership with the mixture of public, private and third sector partners of Argyllun Bute Council, LifeSkill Centres Ltd, Lochaber Hope, Momentum Scotland, Third Sector Hebrides and 2020 Clearview Ltd. The estimated value of the contract is £6.2 million. Finally, contract area 9 is West. The contract area covers East and West and Bartonshire, East and Renfrewshire, Inverclyde and Renfrewshire. The contract has been awarded to the third sector organisation The Wise Group and we have delivered in partnership with Working Links and third sector partners of the Scottish Association for Mental Health. The Lenox partnership enables Scotland and the Royal National Institute for the Blind. The estimated value of this contract is £8.8 million. Under the provisions that we have laid out, the contract for the West area was specifically reserved for supported businesses to bid into. This is the first time that we have exercised this power, demonstrating this Government's commitment to that sector. A supported business provides vital permanent employment for those disadvantaged in the labour market and we are determined to develop a more diverse delivery market for employment support through devolution. This is why, unlike previous approaches, we have used devolved powers to reserve one area for bids from supported businesses. Although The Wise Group has secured a specific contract under the reservation for supported businesses in the West area, we have also seen successful bids from a supported business in two other lots, Remploy in Lanarkshire and Tayside and involvement from both organisations in other areas as delivery partners, demonstrating the strength of that business model. We have evaluated the bids that we have received to secure best-quality and consistent provision across the whole of Scotland. We will rigorously perform and manage the service to ensure that this is delivered. This is crucial to helping us to ensure continuous improvement in the public services that we can offer people. We have listened in public consultation. We have listened in on-going stakeholder engagement. We have listened to the devolved employment services advisory group that has helped to shape, develop and test our devolved employability approach. I would to place on record my thanks to Professor Alan McGregor, the chair and to the third private and public sector members of that group. As we enter the delivery phase of Fair Start Scotland, I can confirm that I plan to develop that consultative approach further and to continue to listen to the diverse range of voices as we deliver Fair Start Scotland and a more aligned, wider employment support landscape. If Fair Start Scotland will see unprecedented levels of partnership delivery, the joint working that we will see between private, public and third sector delivery partners across Scotland will be a real strength of our new approach. That is not simply business as usual. We are taking a partnership approach in Scotland that will see more than half of provision delivered by supported business and by third sector and public sector bodies. It was Fair Start Scotland that has been designed nationally. All services will be delivered locally through new consortia and featuring a range of special providers to ensure that people receive the right type of support from them. We are taking a different approach to the UK Government by funding those services appropriately, committing an additional £20 million each year from our budget over and above the significantly reduced funding being provided by the UK Government. Today, I am laying out who will deliver our Fair Start Scotland programme through the contracts that have been awarded. Much more critical than that, we must remember that the delivery of the programme is about providing support to people who need it. Our vision for Fair Start Scotland is clear. We are using devolved powers to deliver a distinct and different approach to employment support in Scotland. Our approach is significantly different than previously seen in UK Government programmes. We are putting people at the centre of those services and treating them with dignity. Fair Start Scotland will have respect and fairness at its core, supporting people to achieve their full potential. We are listening to the views of people who rely on those services and we will continue to do so. We are better reflecting the reality of Scotland's geography, regional economies and population spread with nine contract areas, rather than simply lumping the whole of Scotland together as one contract package area, as has been the case under the UK Government. We are also delivering differently by ensuring that providers have committed to a wider fair work workforce and community benefits agenda as part of their bids, including paying the living wage and avoiding use of zero-hours contracts. Crucially, as the department has endorsed by overwhelming majority, Fair Start Scotland will be voluntary, working with unemployed people to encourage them to take the opportunity of support towards work, not threatening them with sanctions by the department for work and pensions. That is in keeping with our desire, through all of our new employability and social security powers, to treat people with dignity and respect. Our employment programmes are not about supporting organisations, sectors or institutions. They are above all about supporting people. People who deserve to be supported through a person-centred and tailored approach that meets their needs, people who deserve to be supported to achieve their full potential, people who deserve to be supported to enter work and retain a job, people who deserve to be treated with dignity, respect and fairness to get on life. Just as is the case with the approach by this Government to all its endeavours, people will be at the core of our approach to taking forward Fair Start Scotland. I welcome the devolution of employability programmes in the Smith commission, but I am puzzled by one thing. David Semple of the PCS Union at the Social Security Committee last week explained his union's absolute opposition to the involvement of the private sector in all devolved aspects of social security employability services included. He said that his union's opposition was not ideological but based on performance. None of the privatised employability contracts have had the same delivery outcomes as previous state-run programmes, but the minister knows that I do not agree with that, but I thought that Scottish ministers did. After all, Jeane Freeman has explained to loud applause in this chamber that devolved DLA PIP will not be administered by the private sector. Why has Jamie Hepburn signed contracts not only with the private sector but with one of the very companies that delivered the work programme in Scotland, a programme that the minister has previously condemned? Is this not a case of the SNP saying one thing and doing quite another? Let me begin by apologising for puzzling Professor Tomkins. That certainly was not my intention to be puzzled. It is symptomatic of the Conservative party's approach to those matters. I appreciate that Professor Tomkins is the Social Security spokesperson for the Conservatives in this place, but we are treating employment support rather differently. We are not treating it as part and parcel of the social security system. Clearly, there has to be interaction between those two systems, but we are treating our employment service as an opportunity to support people to get them into work and not to tie them into a manipulative unfair social security system that sanctions them at every term. In relation to the point that has been made, rather mean-spiritedly, I have to say by Professor Tomkins of my saying one thing and doing another. I remind him that, in creating a fairer Scotland employability support, a discussion paper, which was published on 6 July 2015, we set out to Scotland to develop a strong mixed economy employability provision with important contributions made by the public, private and third sectors in our consultation response, published on 22 March 2016. We said that we will work with suppliers to consider what support we can provide and encourage consortia approaches that reflect the existing mixed economy employability services in Scotland. The private provision and local authority and third sector delivery in this Parliament, in this very chamber, in a debate that we had on employment service on 5 October 2016. Professor Tomkins was here. I remember him being here. He clearly was not listening. I said that I intend to take that opportunity to deliver employment support services, building on our strengths in both the public and private sectors and local authority, third sector and specialist delivery. I reiterated that point at our employability summit on 23 November 2016. In print, in public and in Parliament, I have said that we delivered it across a range of suppliers. That is exactly what we are delivering. Yes, the third sector and supported business sector is a critical element of that as well. When you take into account all the contracts that we have awarded between the public, the third sector and supported businesses constitute a majority of the contracts that we have awarded today. Jackie Baillie to be followed by Ivan McKee. Can I thank the minister for an advanced copy of his statement and welcome the progress made with developing First Art Scotland? Like the Scottish Government, Labour is committed to a person-centred tailored approach that is voluntary and based on meeting individual needs. Can I ask the minister three questions? Firstly, and I am being very specific here, can he tell me what percentage of contract value has been awarded to the private sector and the percentage going solely to the third sector to establish if this meets the Government's ambition of a mixed market of support? Secondly, can he explain why he has copied the Tory Government's approach to the work programme with a payment-by-result system? The concern, of course, is that providers will focus on early wins and those closest to the labour market, leaving them with significant barriers without sufficient support. Finally, many will welcome five-year funding, but let me sound a note of caution. I would be interested to hear what opportunities there will be to refocus the contracts if they do not perform as required. Let me thank Jackie Baillie for her questions. In terms of the precise percentage of contract value, I am happy to follow up in writing, but what I can tell her today is that the specific division between the public sector—sorry, a big part of my third sector—and the private sector is roughly equivalent when you factor in the public sector-supported business is a clear majority. In relation to the latter points that you made about the opportunities to be flexible, I think that it was very clear when I was before the committee that I think that that is important. She will understand, of course, that there is only so much that contracts can do, but, yes, within that, there is the possibility to be flexible as circumstances arise and change, including looking at some of the referral criteria that can be referred into that programme. That is very important. It also speaks of our longer-term agenda of trying to better align the various offerings that we have for employability and employment support. In relation to her suggestion that we are copying the Tory model here, I have to refute that utterly. I will run down the range of ways that it is different between what has gone before and what we expect to happen with the working health programme. She says that she shares her ambition for a voluntary service. Our service is going to be voluntary. That has not been the case with the programme previously. It is not going to be the case with the programme that we see with the working health programme. In relation to the consistency of service, we have laid out very clearly a minimum expectation of providers that has not been the case with UK Government programmes in the past. It is not expected to be the case with the working health programme that the UK Government is going to be. Do not worry, Ms Baillie. I will come to payment by outcome, but I think that it is very important that I place on record why the suggestion that we are replicating the UK Government's approach is utter nonsense. Let me finish that and I will come to your last point. In relation to the working health programme going forward, we see that there is going to be the same approach by the UK Government that providers are setting their own standards. In relation to the length of support under the working health programme, we are seeing a reduction in the amount of time that a client or person may be supported, as was the case under the work programme. A reduction in the length of time that we will have up to two and a half years' support. We are embedding, in our approach, an individual placement and support service of those with mental health, severe and enduring mental ill health. I recall Bill Scott. It is indeed a list, Ms Baillie. Okay, minister, that is probably enough of the list in that case. Bill, let me just, if you do not mind, come by outcome is indeed part of our model. I think that that is important, but of course we are embedding an upfront fee. That was important. We heard that call clearly, though, with any employment programme, we do want to see people get into work. I think that, on that basis, it is important that we set expectations that they will. Thank you. Reminding the chamber of my role as parliamentary liaison officer to the cabinet secretary for the economy, can I ask how will the Government align their programmes with the existing health and social care support and what impact does the minister expect this to have on other public services? As I just alluded to a moment ago, integration and alignment of services is critically important for us as an administration. There will be that opportunity through the range of providers that we have put in place to begin that work. We have also announced a £2.5 million pot of funding that I have already made public for integration and alignment. That has set up 15 projects working across 13 local authority areas looking to better support people with mental health conditions, with a learning disability, with housing needs coming out of the justice system. I recognise inherently the need to support people in all aspects of their life and their journey towards employment.  There will be issues that arise in a person's life. That is why the integration and alignment agenda is so important for us, and that is why we will be taking that opportunity through this programme. I will just emphasise that there are eight and a half minutes in the first three questions. There are nine more questioners, so if we can get through them. Dean Lockhart, to be followed by Alison Johnstone. The total value of the contracts announced today amount to £96 million. Can the minister explain what contractual and other assurances are in place to avoid a repeat of the cost and budget overruns that we have seen across many of the Government's programmes? I am very delighted that Dean Lockhart has got into the territory of the cost of this service, because one of the things that we have done is leveraged in additional revenue from the rest of our budget—£20 million per year—to make up for the significant cuts that his party and Government have sent to us as an administration through the devolution of the service. In relation to the assurances that he seeks, that is set out as a contractual provision. We will monitor those contracts very closely and carefully indeed. If it is an issue that any committee of this Parliament wants to ever ask me about, I will be happy to return to them or raise it in this Parliamentary Chamber. I will respond to any issue. Of course, what we have done today is to announce what the contracts are, and a copy of that detail will be available in the Scottish Parliament information centre, which I am sure that Mr Lockhart will run into immediately after we have finished the statement. The Scottish Government is a Scottish living wage employer. In answer to a question of mine, the minister answered that devolved employment services will support the Scottish Government's fair work ambitions, in particular by supporting individuals into sustained work, which offers a route out of poverty. Can I ask whether Fair Start Scotland will support the Scottish living wage and provide a route out of poverty by only paying providers when they place someone in employment that pays at least the Scottish living wage? The first point to make in relation to that, and Alison Johnstone is quite correct to point to the Government's ambitions for the living wage. The first thing that we have done is to take the opportunity through the awarding of those contracts to make sure that the providers themselves are paying their living wage to those who work for them as an organisation. On the agenda of getting people into employment, yes, we will be working with organisations very closely and encouraging them to take every step that they can to make sure that those who end up in employment at the end of that are remunerated adequately. Of course, our aspiration is that everyone in this country should pay paid the real living wage, and that will be no different with our approach to this agenda, as it will be with any other. I thank the minister for early sight of his statement. Many of the successful bidders and their consortium members for a number of the contract areas are the same organisations that are currently delivering the service. How will the Scottish Government guarantee to people that the services that they get will change for the better as a result of this process? Of course, it does occur to me that some of the problems that we have seen in the predecessor programmes were in place when Mr Cole Hamilton's party was in government. That is the fundamental point to make. Any organisation works to a policy set by the administration that has procured that service. Our model is very different, and I have laid out already very clearly in what sense it will be different from the one that went before it under the hands of the UK Government, not least that it will not compel people to take part. It will be a voluntary service, because I believe that we will get more out of people in that way. In that sense, I can assure Mr Cole Hamilton that there will be a significantly different approach under the contract. Just as there has been in this transition year, one of my great joys is going out to see those who have benefited by the programme that we have put in place this year, who inform me that it is remarkably drastically different and much superior to those programmes that they went through under the hands of the Department for Work and Pensions. The matter has been touched on briefly so far, but for further clarity and information, can the minister outline what opportunities there will be for collaboration with the third sector, both in the short term and in the future, in the delivery of the Fair Start Scotland support service? I thank Mr McPherson for that question, Presiding Officer. As I have already set out, the third sector is an important player in the contracts that I have announced today. In the immediate term, they are going to be getting on with the work that is involved in delivering this contract. In relation to other opportunities, I mentioned in my statement the need for continuous improvement. I will be looking to have a similar group in nature to the advisory group that was established that had third sector involvement through the third sector employability form. I want to see the third sector involved in that. Of course, through a range of specialist provision that has already been laid out in the contracts and the tenders that have been come in that have been successfully awarded contracts through, there is a range of third sector bodies laid out there to be subcontractors. As we go forward, if contractors require further specialist provision, they will be, I am sure, prevailing upon the third sector for that as well. Daniel Johnson to be followed by Fulton MacGregor. The minister mentioned in his statement that those contracts would be subject to rigorous performance management. Could he go into some more detail around that measurement regime and outlining how the contracts will be evaluated and how that information will be reported back to Parliament? As I have just alluded to, one of the things that we will of course be doing is making sure that we have that group in place to ensure continuous improvement. My officials will be rigorously assessing the efficacy of the contracts that we have been putting in place to see how effective they have been in reaching the numbers that we want to see. We want to see at least 38,000 people supported through the contracts that we have put in place. We are looking very closely to make sure that we are reaching that ambition. Of course, as the Parliament would expect, we will regularly publish statistics and make them available for the consumption of members of this Scottish Parliament and for the wider public to see just how we are doing in that regard. I am sure that I will be returning to answer questions about that in the future. Fulton MacGregor to be followed by Jamie Halcro Johnston. Can the minister expand a bit further on the rationale for the nine contract areas and what impact he expects those to have? Yes, I think that one of the things that we saw very clearly and heard very clearly was a concern that some of the manner in which the previous contracts had been procured did not reflect some of the geographies that we have here in Scotland. It was too large that it precluded a number of organisations from being able to bid. We have worked with a range of people involved and organisations involved in the delivery of a range of employability interventions, including local government. One of the things that we heard back was a preference from, for example, the Scottish local authority for economic development, who suggested that we should have eight areas. We looked at their proposition and thought that it was more or less right, but nine would be a better reflection on delivery. We were able to deliver to local circumstances. Of course, we were looking at that very closely to see again how effective that has been. When it comes round at the end of those contracts, depending on the direction that we want to take, we will look very closely to see how effective that approach has been. Jamie Halcro Johnston, to be followed by John Mason. The minister has already suggested that detailed outcomes data will be publicly available from all providers to ensure the effectiveness of each regional contract. Could he tell us what stages the data will be provided? I am not quite able to say that today, Presiding Officer. I have made very clear my commitment. It is on the record now that we will be providing that information. It will be regularly published, it will be regularly available, and I make that commitment. As soon as that becomes a confirmed position in terms of when we will make that information available, we will let everyone and every member of the Scottish Parliament know that. If I have further questions about that, I will be happy to respond to Mr Halcro Johnston or anyone else. Can the minister say anything about those who are currently receiving employment support and who might be a bit concerned about how the transition will work? It is an important question because we do not want anyone to be concerned. I can say very clearly to Mr Mason, the rest of the members in the chamber, and the wider public is that those who are benefiting by the transitional arrangements that have been put in this year, there is a period under which our new contracts are in place and they will continue to receive the support from the providers that have been put in place this year after the end of this financial year. There is that clear consistency of provision, so in that sense no one needs to be worried. Can the minister offer insight into how adequate provision was made for local specialised services to participate meaningfully in the procurement process in their own right? That was of critical importance for me in terms of allowing a wider range of suppliers. There was a significant piece of engagement over a long period of time to get to the position that we were in starting several years ago. We have engaged over a number of public events. We have engaged through the medium of the Scottish Government's website to make people aware of the opportunity. Through direct engagement, for example, one of the concerns that was expressed was about the length of time that we had for people to tender, which came from the third sector employability forum. Having heard that, for example, extended the period of time in which people could tender for the service. I have been very clear and responsive to that concern and done all that we could to ensure that specialised riders in local areas could participate and take part. Of course, I would observe that that is part of the reason that we put in place nine contract package areas. My clear view, if we were under the working health programme, is that Scotland would be right now very likely to have one contract package area, but it is still being administered by the Department for Work and Pensions, which would have given local organisations virtually no chance whatsoever of being able to tender. Can the minister confirm that those with a higher need who have not been supported by the previous DWP approach will be at the forefront of fair start Scotland? Yes, I can confirm that. We are operating a model by which there are three levels of support of intensivity, depending on the required support for that individual. That is why I have made the point that there are up to 30 months of support. That includes 18 months of pre-work support and up to 12 months of inward support, which is a significant advance on what was in place before and, again, what we expect to see in the working health programme. Yes, I am alive to the concern that those who need support most must have it, and that is why we are putting in place today's programme. Thank you very much. I thank the minister and all the members for their questions. That concludes our ministerial statement. The next item of business is a debate on motion 7, 9, 4, 6 in the name of Gordon Lindhurst on gender pay gap. I urge all members who wish to speak in this debate to press their requested speed buttons now.