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We also restate our position that the Scottish Government should adopt a similar approach to that of the UK Government and Scottish Fiscal Commission in comparing new plans for spending with estimates or outturns from the previous year.
A majority of respondents (68.3%) to the BBC's 2020 Elite British Sportswomen's Survey said they felt that sportswomen could be more open about their sexuality than their male counterparts. Despite this comparatively welcoming culture, the Committee heard evidence that barriers to participation by lesbian and bisexual athletes still persist
LEAP Sports Scot...
INEOS suggests that its promised £1 billion investment in Grangemouth will unlock this capacity, increasing emission reductions associated with Grangemouth to more than 50% compared to the 2005 level.
In October 2021, the UK Government announced support for two carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) clusters.
NFU President Minette Batters said:
Joining the CPTPP could provide some good opportunities to get more fantastic British food on plates overseas.
Compared to the deals struck with Australia and New Zealand, I am pleased to see that the Prime Minister has stuck to his word and the government has negotiated a far more considered and balanced outcome, particu...
The Institute for Employment Studies agreed that administrative data, such as benefits data, are useful sources of information, but suggested that DWP data could be better disaggregated to show how universal credit data compares with the legacy benefits that it replaced.iCOVID-19 Recovery Committee.
meeting=13961</a> It suggested that, in relation to IT costs “it would be helpful to ask the Government whether the IT projects will be big, middle sized or small [and] it is important to provide those comparators in order to give a sense of scale.”
The following four charts set out data on:
how the average remand population has changed over time (including how it compares to the sentenced population)
the number of people being remanded and the length of time spent on remand.
It is arguable that everything a government does is intended to change behaviour in one way or another, and that there will be unintended consequences from this; from an environmental perspective, the lack of tax on aviation fuel compared to fuel for ground based public transport is perhaps an obvious example of a distortion.
Committee reports
Date published:
22 February 2022
Specifically, the Committee would welcome the Minister’s response both in writing and then in oral evidence to the followingiDonald Cameron MSP and Maurice Golden MSP dissented from this paragraph –
The clear consensus within the evidence which the Committee received that UKIMA places more emphasis on open trade than regulatory autonomy compared to the EU s...
Committee reports
Date published:
22 November 2021
Finally, in response to questions about Fatal Accident Inquiries and deaths in custody, the Crown Agent confirmed that there had been an over 50% increase in reports of deaths in custody (46 in 2020-21) compared to the previous year (30 in 2019-20).