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The first minister also announced that 20 children injured in Gaza would be brought to Scotland for medical treatment, while £400,000 was pledged for a rapidly deployable hospital for use in Gaza.

This approach, said Yu, has made sponge city projects uncomplicated and low-cost compared with conventional solutions, deployable just about anywhere.

The government also asserted that the need for gender-affirming care makes trans troops “less deployable,” but Settle pointed to “persuasive data showing that there have not been deployability concerns” for these individuals.

"Certain things on the satellite are big, that includes its big 12-metre, deployable antenna. It's a bit like deploying an umbrella in space, only a very big one, so we will be looking for that to happen smoothly," said Dr Cordey.

"It wouldn't be enough to fix the things we need to make ourselves more deployable, and to plug the gaps if the Americans left."