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Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Bill: The Committee will consider the Bill at Stage 2 (Day 2). . 2. Budget Scrutiny 2025-26 (in private): The Committee will consider its approach to the scrutiny of the Scottish Government's Budget 2025-26.
When it was introduced, there was a 40 per cent reduction in the availability of out-of-hours work for GPs in Glasgow. When I talk to those GPs now, they say, “What is the point of working?
Action to correct those errors was taken within a matter of hours of the officials noticing them. We are talking about a difference of 0.1 percentage points between figures, and that has been corrected.
I begin, as you and many others have done, by wishing everybody all the very best for the festive season—a very merry Christmas indeed—and all the best for 2023.
"Wholesale and retail trade" has seen the biggest decrease, falling by 5 percentage points between 2012 and 2017.
The biggest increase came in "administrative & support " services, (3 percentage points) however the proportion did fall by 5 percentage points between 2016 an...
There will be collaboration—I can see examples of that already in colleges around Scotland. However, the point about funding for that is key. Colleges were going to receive transitional funding of £26 million, but, before they got that, it was taken back to fund the teachers’ pay award.
Could accompanying notes make the amending stages more transparent and accessible, and, if so, how could that best be achieved? At this point, I will bring in an expert on amendments and notes to amendments.
I am more than happy to write to the member or to meet him to talk about that point. I recognise some of the challenge in the matter and his specific interest in it.