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You will see from our international report that we have a good deal of interest from overseas audit agencies in what we do and the ways that we work, and we greatly value our global networks that allow us to learn from others and to compare our performance but also to share our good practice.
I know that we do not have the most up-to-date figures, but we know from the DWP that, in April, around 140,000 more people were on universal credit compared to February, and I expect that the figure will have risen even further.
If the site was purchased on a commercial basis and new houses were built there, the tax take would be increased, because there would also be LBTT on the new house sales. If we compare the approaches purely from the point of view of tax take, that would result in a more positive tax take.
If you asked someone whose mobile phone use reflects mine, they would say that there is probably not that much of an invasion of privacy compared with doing other things that have always been done.
Essentially, she reported on how Scotland compared to the top quartile countries across a range of measures, including investment, R and D, enterprise, skills, innovation and so on.
Rosemary Agnew is right in saying that it goes wider than just learning and improvement; it is about the help, support and guidance that we give, through the networks, in relation to benchmarking, comparing and contrasting performance, looking at good practice and sharing that practice.
To what extent has the UK Government kept the Scottish Government informed on that? What have you seen? How does it compare with the usual process at this stage of a bill?
We know that Scotland has specific demographic challenges and that life expectancy is lower in Scotland compared with the rest of the UK. We have to challenge that, too, but the UK Government has attempted to justify raising the pension age by saying that we are all living longer.
To go back to the point on eating local, we do not produce nearly enough fruit, veg and whole grains, compared with what we currently eat and what we want to be eating more of, to eat fully local.