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The children's social work statistics for the year ending March 2003 show a 13 per cent increase in the number of children on local child protection registers compared with the previous year, and a 12 per cent increase in referrals for child protection inquiries.
Significant further improvement is required if Scotland is to achieve survival rates and quality of life that are comparable with those in other places. However, progress has been made and we want to continue in that direction.
However, in the UK, only 9,000 to 10,000—or 11 per cent—of people with MS are on DMTs. That figure compares poorly with other countries in Europe and beyond.
It is also a fact that 40 to 50 per cent of deaf sign language users are likely to suffer from mental health problems, compared with 25 per cent of the hearing population.
There is also the matter of the comparative level of holdings for sheep and beef in the areas concerned: some anomalies seem to have arisen in that regard.
I thank the minister for her comments.Before I ask my final question, I must say that it is difficult to discern a difference in the minister's position today compared to before the quota negotiations began in December.
Do you have a money figure for the 9 per cent extra that Scottish customers have to pay on average compared to the average figure for England and Wales?
I do not know how it will be completed in the allocated time unless you already have a lot of data on international comparators. I wish you luck and hope that the programme is realistic as well as ambitious.Paragraph 1 on page 2 of the submission contains some of the hard meat of the matter.