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Local Trading Standards Officers do a test purchase programme using young volunteers – who go into shops to try and buy. This is done in response to complaints but also proactively.
Last year in Scotland, there were more than 42 million visits to Scotland’s public libraries: more people visited public libraries than attended Scottish Professional Football League football matches or visited the cinema.
Questions and Answers
Date lodged:
15 November 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many civil servants worked on the production of the latest Building a New Scotland paper on immigration and EU policy.
It is likely that, in the coming weeks, we will reduce the length of trains and the timetable as a result of the latest restrictions, which no one expects will be relaxed soon.
Members indicated agreement.New Petitions New PetitionsAbortion (Full Decriminalisation) (PE1969) Abortion (Full Decriminalisation) (PE1969) Item 3 is consideration of new petitions.
The Great British beach clean has been around for 26 years and one positive outcome is that more and more people are becoming involved and therefore aware of the impact of litter on our seas and on the wider environment and willing to take action to do something about it.
We have already had exchanges in the chamber on the research excellence framework. The latest REF results indicate that universities in the rest of the UK are improving their performance at a faster rate than those in Scotland are.