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I refer the member to the recent press release dated 22 May 2021 which is available on the Scottish Government website and can be found at www.gov.scot/news/scotlands-response-to-the-covid-19-crisis-in-india/ .
Those criteria are that the individual’s conviction is spent and either seven years and six months has passed from the date of conviction if the individual was under 18 at the date of conviction or 15 years has passed from the date of conviction if the individual was aged 18 or over at the date of conviction.
I will be happy to write to Kevin Stewart with the number of students who have benefited from free tuition to date. Thousands of oil and gas jobs are lost every month, while the SNP has a presumption against new oil and gas.
Statistics have shown that about 20 per cent of participants in the no one left behind programme were economically inactive at their start date, but support is available and the Deputy First Minister is undertaking work to build on that.
I am delighted to take part in this debate given that my first language is Punjabi, I learned English, tuned into Scots, and I am fully appreciative of Gaelic. Dating back centuries, Gaelic is one of the oldest indigenous languages in Europe.