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Since my time in office I have been encouraged by the clear progress that is being made across Scotland. I have visited a broad range of organisations and seen first hand the excellent work being undertaken at a local and a national level.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 January 2016
We have a challenge in respect of what the public sector pays compared with what the private sector pays, but the Government is looking innovatively at what can be done to attract certain skill sets.
These effects are likely to be long-lasting and are comparable to the economic scarring produced by industrial closure5Celli, V., Cerqua, A., & Pellegrini, G. (2023).
Annex 1.1: Benchmark analysis of Lobbying (Scotland) Act
Two indexes were selected from the academic and policy evaluation literature to estimate the strength of the Lobbying (Scotland) Act 2016 and compare it against international comparators.
In Scotland, the number of women in employment and the rate for women are currently the second highest since comparable records began in 1992. While across the UK, the employment rate was the joint highest since comparable records began in 19711Office for National Statistics. (2019, July 16).
Net potential impact of SFC and OBR forecasts
This means that the latest set of forecasts for Scottish revenues point to the outlook for the Scottish budget worsening in two ways compared with the previous set of forecasts.