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The deer population will continue to rise unless there are big die-offs in the winter; we get die-offs in which 1,000 deer die.To answer your question, Mr Don, I think that you are broadly right about the number.
It has a population of a similar size to Scotland’s and is consistently right at the very top of any per-head-adjusted league tables of medals won at the summer or winter Olympics.
Additionally, we know that fewer taxpayers in Scotland are at the top end of the distribution, which is one of the challenges that we face with the net position for Scotland.
The council went to the farmer and asked to buy the land. The landowners will tell you that the council has been four times since to buy the land—in the 1980s, the 1990s and the early 2000s.
Last week, the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and I were pleased to announce the freezing of rail fares in Scotland for the next financial year. It comes on top of the decision last September to eliminate peak rail fares, which resulted in an average cost reduction of about 17 per cent on all ScotRail ticket types, and a 48 per cent reduction in commuting ...
Child Poverty The head of Scotland for Save the Children has welcomed the Scottish National Party Government’s budget plans for a top-up to the Scottish child payment for families with a baby under one.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether Marine Scotland funding for marine litter removal from the beach at the top of Loch Long, following storms, is still in place.