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To ask the First Minister what recent discussions have been held between the Scottish Government and the Scotland Office regarding opportunities for future intergovernmental cooperation and the new UK ministerial appointments. S5F-01429
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
4 October 2016
It is my pleasure to welcome Scottish Government officials and the Minister for Schools and Skills, Keith Brown. It is the minister's first visit to the committee. I am sure that it will be the first of many, although it has taken us some time to get the minister here.
Do you have any figures for national profits? Our annual report on the latest financial figures will be issued next week, and we will send the committee a copy of it.
Accordingly, the definition of the group of persons who are “new entrants to, or who are progressing in, farming for the purposes” of the new process is fundamental to the scope and application of that new process in practice.
Do you recognise the picture that CalMac painted of the problems in trying to acquire new ships? As you know, CalMac is commissioning a new boat via Poland.
Although the cost will rise, it is not likely to rise as a percentage of the total care budget. In England, the latest discussion document, which came out last year, indicated that the average cost of care for those over 65 is about £30,000 a year.