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We understand the need to increase the variety of opportunities to enter Gaelic Medium Education teaching and continue to look at new routes, whether full-time, part-time or distance learning.
At the start of this parliamentary session, North Ayrshire recorded 130 cases of people possessing an article with a blade or point in a public setting. The latest figures show that there were still 128 bladed or pointed-article crimes in 2024.
The most recent information that we have shows that more than 213,000 hectares of land are in community ownership; they are owned by more than 500 groups across Scotland.It is also important to remember the mechanism by which we enable people to access or consider community ownership, which is the Scottish land fund. Since the latest fund opened in 2021, th...
The independent care review resulted in the Promise, and yet the latest results show that the percentage of pupils leaving school early is rising and there is a 10-point gap in relation to positive destinations.
That funding is additional to that which the UK Government has contributed. UN Women’s latest analysis reports that more than 28,000 women and girls have been killed by Israeli forces—that is an average of one every hour.
I also understand that we have not heard from the petitioner and I am keen that she should have a proper opportunity to respond to the latest comment from Public Health Scotland.
However, Mr Ewing is correct—the petitioner has made a comprehensive series of specific points in their latest submission, which we could condense into a series of questions to put to the minister, and then see what response we obtain.