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The first full NFI exercise was undertaken in 2004/5 and, in June 2016, Audit Scotland published its latest report covering 2014/15.1Audit Scotland. (2016, June).
Attitudes towards prostitution
To what extent is the effectiveness of approaches which seek to challenge the demand for prostitution by criminalising the buyer (rather than the seller) dependent upon changing attitudes within society towards both: (a) the buying of sex; and (b) people in prostitution?
Committee reports
Date published:
15 November 2024
Another such area is in the development of National Indicators, where wider consultation will better ensure these are robust measures of progress of all agreed National Outcomes, that have the buy-in of stakeholders, and can be used to inform effective policy making going forward.
Participants suggested there was potential for additional costs to local authorities from the creation of a new tax, owing to requirements to collect, administer, monitor and enforce it.
Committee reports
Date published:
17 November 2020
Many witnesses stressed the need for community involvement in individual projects, and public buy-in more generally. They noted increasing public interest in decarbonisation and climate change yet highlighted that a lot of people did not appreciate gas boilers were emitting technologies.
Revoke, suspend or modify legislation on public intervention and private storage aid, which currently allows Governments to intervene in the market under exceptional circumstances to buy up and/or store products to support agricultural producers.
We will discuss with universities arrangements for any increase in the number of students beyond the 5 per cent limit after 26 April, when Scotland will move into protection levels.