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Amendment 22, in the name of the minister, is grouped with amendments 26, 28 and 32. The amendments in this group relate to the timescale and manner of applications for recall of decree.
Professor Munn referred earlier to the level of exclusions and said that they were 26 per 1,000 for children with ASD as opposed to 15 per 1,000 in the background population.
I am certain that if we get a high-speed rail system there will be some transfer from car travel, but we also have terrific potential for freight transfer.
In England and Wales, following the Carter review, £1.2 billion was transferred from the reserve to the Ministry of Justice to be allocated for the prison estate.
The Scottish Government is assuming slightly more rapid increases in house prices over the period—about 28 per cent in aggregate between 2015-16 and 2020-21, whereas we have about 26 per cent. The Scottish Government has a 15 per cent increase in transactions between 2015-16 and 2020-21; we have about 9 per cent.
On another point, the University of St Andrews has asked how the wording “must aim to uphold” would accord with separate statutory duties that are placed on universities. For example, section 26(1) of the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 imposes a statutory duty on higher education bodies to “have due regard to the need to prevent people from being ...
As members will be aware, the Scottish Government has set out its intention to remove the three-year limitation period—commonly known as the time bar—for cases of historical child abuse that took place after 26 September 1964. Should the bill be passed, that will remove a significant barrier to justice for a number of survivors.
That is the bad news; the good news, of course, is that, according to exhibit 11, freight numbers have increased by 26 per cent. That is still short of Glasgow airport’s 34 per cent increase, but it is significant nonetheless.