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I estimate that it is at about 1 per cent. To compare that with the annual flu vaccination programme, somewhere between 15 per cent and 20 per cent of people will refuse that, because they do not believe in it, believe that it made them unwell in the past or just do not want it.
I have nothing really to add, convener, except to say that I hope that our discussion on the issues that the committee wants to debate will bring out the key points.
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Date answered:
15 November 2007
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A survey by Business in the Community found that one in three black people—compared with 1 per cent of white people—felt that ethnicity would be a barrier to their progressing in their workplace.
That situation is starting to improve, but the data will have gaps when compared with other years. I have a quick question for Julie Hesketh-Laird about the inability to harvest fish with the result that they have had to be grown slightly bigger.
Is that correct? Having just carried out comparative analysis of the nine Scottish attainment challenge authorities, I suppose that that question is for me.
That is the difference. We are not comparing like with like. The Parliament may choose to change that, and that is entirely a decision for you, but we are dealing with the situation as it stands now and with the very difficult choices that councils have to make.