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It has compounded the challenge that existed in the system prior to lockdown—there was challenge previously—but we also see gaps in our children’s learning. When we talk about comparing exam results from the past four years with exams that were taken before the pandemic, we need to be careful.
For example, nearly 31 per cent of women in the most deprived areas self-report as smokers at the time of their first antenatal visit, compared to just 6 per cent of women in the least deprived areas.
We had some evidence from them when we were on our committee visit to Dumfries and Galloway but the committee has not heard from them although the local members have.
This indicates that the UKG and NI Executive have agreed a methodology for assessing relative funding which compares the Executive’s un-ringfenced block grant funding per head to equivalent UKG funding per head in the rest of the UK.
This indicates that the UKG and NI Executive have agreed a methodology for assessing relative funding which 9 compares the Executive’s un-ringfenced block grant funding per head to equivalent UKG funding per head in the rest of the UK.
In his Foreword to the PfG 2025-26, the First Minister said that it is “a programme designed to deliver renewed and strengthened public services and to ensure that people in Scotland are better protected during the cost-of-living crisis compared with elsewhere in the UK”. Medium-Term Financial Strategy and related documents 15.