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The numbers are similar, but the organisation has got less for the £78 million that it has spent so far. Right. I was trying to compare exhibit 2 with exhibit 1. Exhibit 2 shows the present position—or at least what the position was when the report was written.
Since 2014, superfast broadband access has increased by 35 percentage points in Scotland—from 59 per cent to 94 per cent—compared with a 21 per cent increase in the UK.
NHS boards met just two of the eight key waiting time standards in 2018-19, but it is important to note that more people were seen and treated on time compared with 2017-18. Achieving financial sustainability remains a challenge.
We have heard reports that, because of the penalties involved, organised crime groups might consider things such as illegal puppy dealing or puppy importing to be relatively low risk compared with other criminal activities, such as dealing in drugs or firearms.
We do not know how much of a pay rise—this was previously a big issue with Coatbridge College—the senior management team is getting, compared with the rest of the staff. Surely we should be looking behind all that and questioning use of resources, which is fundamental to the remit of a section 22 report.
I am not suggesting for a moment that the Scottish political landscape should be compared directly to that of the US, but we have seen elsewhere the situation in which someone bragging about committing sexual assault can win high office.
The proceedings of the House of Commons are a little arcane compared with those of our Parliament, so there are other ways to do that and perhaps the amendment will come at a later stage.
I was pleased to see that, at the 2015 milestone, we remained on track to achieve those targets: fatalities had reduced by 42 per cent compared with the 2004 to 2008 baseline figures.
We know that jobs in parts of the Highlands and Islands region are comparatively low paid and that parts have lower-than-average levels of professional jobs available.
The people who are involved are very nasty people indeed. Until comparatively recent times, I had in my constituency Peterhead prison, which was Scotland’s serious sex offenders prison.