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Will there be a duty on people who rent a horse—either for one event or for a week—to be in possession of its passport if it is taken on to the new keeper's land or on to common land?
Many people fear coming back into education because they are afraid of revealing a lack of such skills to their new employers or colleagues. The training of those learning representatives by the unions is proving to be an invaluable social inclusion measure.
We have a good relationship with independent schools. I appreciate that there are new burdens for the independent sector—for example, the McCrone settlement is an additional burden and the new probationer scheme is a potential additional burden.
Major changes are under way in some of the teacher training institutions. We are funding new posts in the University of Aberdeen, where new professors are developing new ways of training teachers and supporting them in the process of being trained in inclusion and additional s...
We can point to certain indicators, the first of which are the latest census figures. We are starting to see the tail end of a gradual decline moving up.
First, will you give us details of the budget for this year and the next two years for spending on the new deal, which comes out of part of your budget, and associated performance and output targets for the new deal programmes?