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It found what it described as a “relatively static” rate of offenders reconvicted within one year, with 30 per cent in 2009-10 compared to 32 per cent in 1997-98, and more than 42 per cent reconvicted within two years.
That is a fair characterisation of the position, is it? How does the United Kingdom compare with other countries of a similar population size with regard to its exporting activity in China?
I hope that there will be a growing capacity. On a number of visits—especially to parts of the economy here in Edinburgh—I have heard about the opportunity for more collaboration between businesses.
Members are muddling different schemes in international jurisdictions. I suggest that comparing a scheme where fireworks are completely banned with the one that we would have here introduces a bit of disingenuousness to the debate.
I will try not to run out of breath, Presiding Officer. The minister may know that I visited BRC in Newhouse on Monday and saw the preparation of the steel for the Aberdeen western peripheral route.
The Minister for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform visited Hawick this morning to see some of the impacts and to meet some of those who are involved in the response.
That is why we are delivering record numbers of modern apprenticeships. I visited GlaxoSmithKline in Irvine a few weeks ago—perhaps it is a few months ago now—where I talked to young people who would have been perfectly capable of going to university but chose to follow the vocational route instead.