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which has increased by 1% compared to the 2022 score, increasing from 7% to 8%. This is the first increase from a historic low of 7% seen over the last 3 years, and reflects the UK Civil Service benchmark which is also 8% in the 2023 Survey.
The cost of providing inward and outward visits was roughly equal, at £97,802 for inward visits and £96,458 for outward visits, including travel costs.
Our guidance from 13 March 2020 and 26 March 2020 emphasised that care home residents should remain in their rooms as far as possible and that routine visiting should be suspended.
Registered businesses account for less than half the total number of businesses: the overall number of businesses (360,910) increased over the latest year and is now the second highest since the series began in 2000.
(As agreed by resolution of Parliament on 15 June 2021)
Convener: Claire Baker (Lab)
Deputy Convener: Colin Beattie (SNP)
Membership: The committee has 9 members
Committee meetingsThere were 32 meetings in the parliamentary yearNumberTotal meetings of the Committee32Meetings held wholly in private5Meetings held partly in private26Joint meetings with other Committees0Meetings held outside the Parliament0Meetings held remotely by video conference1Hybrid meetings14Committee membersMembersPartyNumber of meetings attended (possible total)Claire BakerLab31 (32)Colin BeattieSNP30 (32)Alexander Burnett (until 22 September 2022)Con13 (14)Maggie ChapmanGreen30 (32)Jamie Halcro JohnstonCon27 (32)Fiona HyslopSNP32 (32)Gordon MacDonaldSNP29 (32)Graham Simpson (from 22 September 2022)Con25 (25)Colin SmythLab29 (32)Michelle ThomsonSNP32 (32)Substitute membersSubstitute membersPartyNumber of meetings attendedDaniel Johnston (from 25 April 2023)Lab0John MasonSNP4Liz SmithCon0Paul Sweeney (until 25 April 2023)Lab0Reporters: None
Committee Clerk: Anne Peat
Advisers: None
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That is how Anders Povlsen has become probably Scotland’s largest private landowner, with no questions asked. There is nothing new about the unregulated land market in Scotland; what is new is the latest way in which it is being exploited.
However, the SNP and Greens now have a choice. We have a new transport minister in Jenny Gilruth, and with a new minister comes the chance to adopt a new approach—a clean break with the past year, in which Scottish Government actions were running counter to its rhetoric.