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. • When used exactly as recommended by the manufacturer, tobacco is the one legal consumer product that will kill most users – 2 out of 3 people who smoke will die from smoking. • Smoking levels are at their lowest recorded point – around 1 in 10 (11%) of the Scottish adult population smoke. • Smoking rates do not f...
“Any report of deaths of large numbers of animals should be taken seriously and considered logically. Large numbers of wild animals die every year in the UK as a result of natural processes including starvation, predation, ageing and infection.
We wanted to be sure that certain points are at least on the record, even where they are not capable of influencing the outcome. 1 Part 1: Points discussed at committee The changing nature of the GRC population 1.1.
He said that the industry has to innovate “or die”, and his report also said that the UK construction industry faced “inexorable decline” unless long-standing problems were addressed.
Amendment 20, in the name of Liam Kerr, is grouped with amendments 21 to 24, 26, 28 and 29. Amendments 20 to 24, 26, 28 and 29 are grouped as being ancillary to section 3 and to section 5, which has been removed.
(S6O-04917) The Scottish Government recognises the critical role of community facilities across Scotland and provided a record local government settlement in 2025-26. That record funding helps local authorities to support their local priorities, which includes both council and external-led community facilities.
That is why, as I said in my answer to the previous question, the Government prioritised £29 million of additional funding in the 2025-26 budget for local and national programmes to support the recruitment, retention and training of the ASN workforce.
We have re-established the regulatory review group, which met for the first time on 26 October 2023 and will provide advice on the pragmatic implementation of regulations.