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Sometimes, percentages can be awkward when you try to compare things. On the infrastructure side, over the last two periods, we have had a distinct improvement in performance relative to earlier periods.
Since my last budget, Scottish GDP statistics have shown growth in each quarter, with annual growth of 1.2 per cent compared with just 0.3 per cent for the UK as a whole.
At the moment, an important informal agriculture council is taking place in La Hulpe in Belgium, where the topic is the future of the common agricultural policy.
That is why the Parliament’s committees reflect the balance that the voters have chosen in the election. However, there is already one exception: the Public Audit Committee, which is a scrutiny committee.
One of the interesting things about the Scottish economy of late is the speed at which developments and initiatives have been introduced in it compared with economies elsewhere. I tell Iain Gray that the apprenticeship guarantee will be introduced in Scotland.
Over the past two and a half years, he has seen the wreck that I was, compared with how I am now. I could not have come into this room two and a half years ago, never mind spoken to the committee.
One of the papers in the pack that you provided to the committee states: “The current strategy of risk-factor-based screening is not cost-effective compared with screening based on culture”.