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To ask the First Minister what engagements he has planned for the rest of the day. (S4F-00822) Later today, I will visit Forth Valley College in Stirling to open its new state-of-the-art £20 million campus building.
For example, farming has co-ops, such as Ringlink, that provide excellent schemes. I have visited one that provides internships and training for young people to bring them into farming so that it gets new entrants, which is very important.
I am happy to open up the session to members to ask questions. The latest remand figures for Scotland show that almost 30 per cent of people in prison are on remand—the figure is in the region of 1,862 of a population of 7,500.
The visit in January was invaluable in extending our understanding of the withdrawal negotiations, the negotiations to agree a new treaty and the need for transitional arrangements.
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason care home visitors can no longer perform a COVID-19 lateral flow test prior to their visit, and now must take one on site, and for what reason visits to care homes have been restricted to 30 minutes.
Statistics on that are just coming through, but the statistics from August 2021 to August 2022, which were published just last week, showed that 27 individuals were prosecuted under that legislation, 26 of whom were convicted—a conviction rate of 96 per cent.
A couple of years ago, the computer firm Unisys said that it takes people an average of 26 hours to report a lost wallet, but only 68 minutes to report a lost cellphone.