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I thank Marie Gougeon for raising that issue. I am absolutely dismayed by the news that I heard this morning from the European Commission that Dundee’s European capital of culture bid looks as if it will be the latest victim of the Tories’ obsession with taking this country out of the European Union against our will,...
A recent report said that, in the number of healthy life years, there can be a 26-year difference between those in the lowest economic group and those in the highest economic group.
For comparison, 204,460 parents or carers received at least one Scottish Child Payment. The latest publication for each benefit can be found at: Social Security Scotland - Statistics .
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
18 September 2009
Since then, that board has moved on to pastures new, and we have a new board. In June 2020, I think, the new board sat down and went through all the available evidence and confirmed that the decision to pursue the strategy that we had was the right decision.
It is about supporting the economy and putting in place the modern infrastructure that the country needs.I visited the new south Glasgow hospital yesterday.
A large portion of our schools are P7 and as a result they may stop coming, with a new administrative burden on both teachers and centres to engage with schools who have never previously run such visits.
I also visited Cornton Vale. I looked at the old prison and met some of the staff and some women who were in custody, and then I went to have a look at the new Cornton Vale that is being built.
Will the cabinet secretary join me in thanking Auchenback Active for all the work that it does all year round, and will she accept my invitation to visit the Auchenback resource centre next year to see its brilliant work first hand?