During These Crisis years perhaps we could get some old but excellent teachers back to help us.

We must see to it that we are more effective over These Crisis years.

In the urgency of These Crisis debates - and it is not an exaggeration to call the present unemployment situation a crisis - we tend to run for short-term solutions.

In the midst of the welter of congratulations which the hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends are receiving, would he care to explain why there is the need for These Crisis conferences with the CBI and the TUC?

Whenever we have These Crisis debates -the longer we have the present Government, the more crisis debates we shall have - back benchers drive more and more nails into the philosophy of supply and demand and into the appalling idea of people having to stand on their own two feet.

Those who take the contrary view must accept that the damage caused to our social and political identity over These Crisis years, even if only small, would be offset by worthwhile economic benefits and that a glorious transformation would occur.

Through the partnership between the Labour-led Scottish Executive and the Labour Government here in Westminster, we will do what we can--notwithstanding structural change and the fact that we cannot artificially support market conditions--to deal with These Crisis situations.

At paragraph 56, the Committee reports that "These Crisis-driven and ad-hoc groupings do not provide Ministers with an active forum in which they can make collective decisions about longer-term intelligence requirements and priorities for secret intelligence across the full range of topics".

For These Crisis houses you do not need a CTO or assertive outreach teams or anything else.

My first plea for operational and resource issues of a short-term kind is, then, to get a much higher level of efficiency across the board in how These Crisis loans and community care grants are administered.

It is also the case that before being admitted to an acute unit with beds, mental health patients are expected to get assessed by These Crisis teams, but in 50 per cent.

Much as I applaud the work of credit unions and the substantial cross-party support for them, they are in no position to help in These Crisis cases.

When people start to wane in their support when the tabloids perhaps start to take some of these stories off the front page, we need to remind them what life is really like for families and for women in These Crisis-hit areas.