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Today, the streets are awash with cheap cocaine, which was previously affordable only to the middle classes, and new psychoactive substances are the latest drugs phenomenon.
However, it also presents some significant opportunities for new businesses to prosper across Scotland, as well as new business models, new technology and regulatory innovations that are pioneered here to be exported around the world.
The committee has also questioned the comparator information that is being used. For the 2025-26 budget, we are working hard to adjust that information, which will show the budget after transfers have taken place.
The relevant period originally ran from 26 March to 30 September. The act allows Scottish ministers to extend the relevant period for SCIOs by three months at a time, and the Scottish Parliament approved a previous set of regulations that extended the relevant period to 30 December.
The challenges associated with staffing, including staff absence and recruitment, are matters that I discuss regularly with the chief executive of the SPS, most recently on 26 November. The SPS continues to support Grampian with staff from elsewhere across the prison estate.
Instead of getting answers to give them some closure and peace, they have been waiting 26 weeks for a final post-mortem report—they are still waiting.
Social Security Scotland (Disability Pay Gap) To ask the Scottish Government for what reason there is a median disability pay gap of 26 per cent in Social Security Scotland.
I do not for a second move away from saying that work needs to be done, but if we look at 2006, we find that the number of primary 1 pupils in classes of more than 26 was 16,845. Today, the number of primary 1 pupils in classes of more than 26 is 451.