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I understand that some staff told Committee Members during secure care visits that they did not yet feel they were yet in a position to deal with the changes from the Bill.
I would therefore say that it is a breathing space, but, without perspective on what will happen in 2024-25 and 2025-26, it is hard to predict what it will allow us to do.
Again, I convey my condolences to everyone who has lost a loved one throughout the pandemic. We will shortly publish the latest estimate of the reproduction number in Scotland.
Achieving the Scottish Government’s current target to reduce the overall devolved public sector workforce by an average of 0.5% a year from 2025-26 to 2029-30 would, according to the SFC, “require a significant departure from recent trends”.
The absence of a statutory prohibition on disclosure which would allow the Commissioner to rely on section 26 of FOISA is understood to have been due to a drafting omission. [...]
This is compared with 49% and 54% conifers in Wales and Northern Ireland respectively, and 26% conifers in England.2Forest Research. (2020, September 24).
In terms of legislation, we have so many different age differences for different things. Criminal justice to 26, looked after to 25 – [it] has to be consistent with whatever else you are doing.