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Yesterday, the Deputy First Minister and I, along with a number of ministers, visited the new headquarters of JPMorganChase, which employs more than 2,500 staff at a magnificent state-of-the-art campus that it has opened in the centre of Glasgow.
Next week is Scottish women and girls in sport week, and the Government is engaged in a lot of promotional work to encourage more participation and engagement in sporting activity by women and girls. Next week, I will visit UHI Perth in Perth city to support some of that work.
Apprenticeship Funding On a visit to Prestwick airport by the Economy and Fair Work Committee this week, we learned that the engineering cluster that includes the airport and surrounding companies is burgeoning at the seams and is desperate to expand.
We are also seeing that the LCM process triggers a more involved process of scrutiny in the devolved legislatures as compared to the Westminster perspective.
The lowest level of compliance was in Grampian, where the level of compliance with restriction of liberty orders and electronic monitoring was 71.8 per cent, which compares with 100 per cent in the High Court.
During 2016-17, 3,574 three-day emergency food supplies were provided to local people in crisis, compared with 3,107 in 2015-16. Of those, 935 went to children in 2016-17, compared with 730 in 2015-16.
Two forms of discrimination are prohibited: (i) direct discrimination where a good imported another part of the UK is disadvantaged compared to locally produced goods; and (ii) indirect discrimination where there is no direct discrimination but the application of a local regulation places the imported good at a competitive disadvantage and produces an adver...