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Alongside formal evidence-gathering, Committee Members have made three visits in connection with the Bill:
On 12 June Members visited George Watson's College, Edinburgh.
In the 2010-11 academic year, the trust reached more than 70,000 children and there was a 20 per cent rise in school farm visits in Scotland.Across the Lothians, the trust organises, on average, 50 farm visits and 150 classroom visits each year.
The aims, ambitions and objectives of the bill could be within other commissioners’ offices, as I have already said; however, regarding the principles, the proposed commissioner would be absolutely unique and different compared with the other commissioners and what they do.
However, if I may, I would like to write to you with some comparators. Stepping back from the comparison, I will say that we need to push the leverage ratio up.
For someone with sight loss, it could perhaps be compared to having something stolen such as a long cane or assistive technology such as a laptop or tablet with screen-reading software.
While there has been a significant uptake of UKIM applications compared with the previous UKTS or UK trader scheme—I apologise for all the acronyms—our members noted that the UKIM scheme is quite bureaucratic and challenging to get across.
Nine colleges returned a deficit in 2021-22, compared with three colleges the year before, which is quite a sharp change in the complexion of the colleges’ sustainability.
One that I have talked about previously in this room is the PANORAMIC study, which takes big groups of people, gives them a drug, compares them to those who do not get it and watches the results.