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SQA’s CfE Liaison team has been making regular visits to schools and local authorities to ensure they have the most up to date information on the new qualifications.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 February 2012
SQA’s CfE Liaison team has been making regular visits to schools and local authorities to ensure they have the most up to date information on the new qualifications.
Recurring weaknesses include: - no consistent definition or baseline for preventative spending; relabelling of existing activity rather than demonstrable new investment; weak quantification of avoided demand; lack of credible counterfactuals; limited longitudinal data and evaluation.
This means that any increased risk from diverging tax policy such as the introduction of the new advanced rate band in 2024/25 may not be apparent until 2026/27 at the earliest.
The provisions involve inserting a new Part 5A into the Procurement Act 2023, which confers powers on Ministers of the Crown, Scottish Ministers, and Welsh Ministers to make regulations and publish a code of practice to ensure equal treatment of different groups of workers.
The first appears to refer to the issue of secession: Scotland breaking away from the United Kingdom to form a new state – what is often called ‘external’ sovereignty: the sovereignty of the state under international law.
Douglas Lumsden: To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the Nuclear Industry Association's reported view that Scotland will miss out on thousands of new jobs due to its stance on nuclear energy.