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It is an area that we and DWP both keep under review. As best as we understand at this point, however, we have been able to take account of those matters in our thinking.
The report also says that “Papers for board and committee meetings held after June 2021 were not publicly available on the college’s website at the point the auditor signed their opinion on 24 March 2022.”
Salary costs are 2017/18 prices AFC point 28 published by Scottish Government on 23 March 2017, Pay and Conditions (PCS(AFC)2017/2), employer on costs to account for national insurance and pension contributions are based on a 26% uplift.
Energy security is national security for the US. Therefore, when we talk about energy, we talk about investment in Scotland rather than selling to other countries.
The Cabinet Secretary’s view is that the “purdah period should not be extended lightly or ill-advisedly” given that this would disrupt normal business. He also points out that a referendum is not the same as an election in which a “Government might be tempted to use pork-barrel politics of various types in order to influence the vote.”2Official Report, Finance and Constitution Committee, 25 September 2019, Col. 26.