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They are doing a different type of benchmarking that is about not just looking at numbers but visiting one another, and the teams visiting one another.
However, one point that I find convincing is that, when the voting age was reduced in other countries, turnout rates for 16 and 17-year-olds were found to be comparable to those of the electorate at large and higher than those for 18 to 20-year-olds.
The vibrancy of our town centres will be diminished if people believe that it is easier to visit out-of-town shopping facilities.Unregulated parking also poses obstacles and significant dangers to elderly people, those with disabilities and young families.
I set out in my opening remarks that our analysis points to the fact that there will be £170 million of cuts by the UK Government, compared to the funding that we would have received had we remained in the EU.
There is the scandal of low pay, with average earnings in Dumfries and Galloway being £11.52 per hour compared with a national average of £14.30—that makes the region the lowest paid in Scotland.
People with learning difficulties are much more likely to live in social housing—52 per cent of people with learning difficulties do so, compared with 21 per cent of the general population—and they are much less likely to own their own homes.
r=12385&c=2219348The Committee is concerned that it does not have a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the comparative costs of private prison places to that of public prison places.