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Many hundreds, if not thousands, of new houses have been built, which has brought new people with new ideas to complement the talent that already existed.
Table 1 shows the number of registered business births, for the last four years, and the latest 1-year/3-year survival rates. These data are taken from the ONS Business Demography 2011 publication, which contains the most up to date data available.
The order abolishes prison visiting committees and creates a new independent prison monitoring service under the auspices of Her Majesty’s chief inspector of prisons for Scotland.
This provides an evidence base to inform rural skills planning across a range of different partners. The latest update to the documents was published in July 2021.
Those issues are combined; we need to maintain the market for new homes and the interest in them, and we need to ensure that the occupiers of new homes have similar rights and options to those of consumers in the second-hand market.
When the Scottish National Party first came to power, there were 209 drug incidents in prisons. In the latest report, the figure has risen to just over 2,000.
We will continue to work closely with the Scottish Police Authority and Police Scotland to monitor and manage the financial impacts of Covid on the policing budget. The latest quarterly statistics show that there are now fewer officers in front-line roles than when Police Scotland was formed.