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Very few employers reach it, whether they be Government departments or other employers. If, to date, we have failed completely to convince employers to do that, how will we convince them to go further and to employ people at home?
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Stage 2 of the Budget (Scotland) (No 5) Bill was completed yesterday; agreeing the motion today will allow the bill to progress to stage 3, after the brief February recess. If passed, the Scottish rate will come into effect from 6 April and will apply to the non-savings and non-dividend income of Scottish taxpayers.
One interesting thing is that, as the UK’s major ports group, we had a look at the productivity of the whole port sector and found that it has improved its productivity by 19 per cent since the financial recession in 2008-09. I have one final question on that, because I am still struggling a wee bit with it.
In the first evidence session on the bill, which was before the summer recess, we heard considerable support from Professor Paterson and Professor Mullen for the use of sub-committees of the council that would involve a lot more specialists, particularly for drafting rules.
As you will recall, I gave a commitment to the university principals that we would resolve the issue of rest-of-United-Kingdom fees before Parliament rises for the summer recess at the end of this week. I will therefore speak about it tomorrow.