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However, in respect of overall budget cuts compared with what has happened elsewhere in the UK, we have managed to protect the budgets as far as we can.
The problem is that if we are to compare like with like, we must compare countries that have the same ambition as Scotland has for its international development function.
One of our prison studies showed that adults with head injuries tended to be in prison from, on average, age 16, compared to age 21 among non-head-injured people.
Checks and balances are in place in a number of areas, and I meet the staff associations regularly to compare notes and identify and—I hope—intervene early on any issues that might be emerging.
As long as the Scottish Parliament has some party groups that are comparatively very large and some that are comparatively very small, that will put pressure on members of the smaller party groups to sign up to cross-party groups.
Some data are based on the current welfare system, so when the system changes we will not have a comparative data set. A number of surveys measure different aspects of the targets in the 2010 act, so there are difficult issues.