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The cohort of staff involved are from across the West Partnership authorities and in comparable specialist settings so absolutely appropriate to collaborate and learning with and from.
I am happy to write to him once again to outline the fact that he is not comparing like with like. As I set out in my answer to Colin Smyth, both the resource funding and the capital funding that are allocated to South of Scotland Enterprise in 2025-26 reflect an increase in funding compared to 2024-25.
To go back to the original question about services in rural areas, although there are definitely different situations compared to in the cities, I would not like the services that are there to be overlooked.
We have consistently made the point that we believe that such a tax is an uncompetitive approach, given our rate of VAT compared with the rate of VAT of our competitors.
S6W-39008 Sharon Dowey: To ask the Scottish Government what work it is engaged in to address the increase of 16% in shoplifting incidents recorded in 2024-25 compared with 2023-24, and how it will work with local authorities to protect retailers and their staff.
Focusing on the difficulties facing criminal defence solicitors, the Dean referred to the disparity in salary between those joining that branch of the profession compared to private practice or the prosecution system.
The UK market is familiar with comparable requirements brought in for energy efficiency labelling in 2011 by SI 1524 (albeit the legal competence and legislative powers used are different).
BioLPG, alternatively known as biopropane, is a versatile, ‘drop-in’ renewable compared to solution which can provide up to 90% carbon emissions reduction fossil-based LPG.