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A good example of that is Queen Margaret University’s new outdoor learning hub, which my colleague Graeme Dey, the Minister for Higher and Further Education, opened earlier this week.
A total of 88 responses were received, 26 from roads authorities, 15 from utility companies, 10 from contractors, 8 from special interest groups, 16 from individuals and 13 classed as "others".
I set out the social wage argument in the chamber on 26 May 2011, when I said:“Free university education, no tolls, no tax on ill health and one bill—the council tax—that will not soar: that is the concept of the social wage.
However, the changes to the 1996 Act proposed by the DWG and with the addition of new intervention powers did not constitute a significant enough change to the legislation to require a new act.
The September 2023 figures are the latest available. Scottish Ministers, special advisers and the Permanent Secretary are covered by the terms of the Lobbying (Scotland) Act 2016.