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I will do that until I complete the projects that I inherited before I was elected—I do not foresee that lasting beyond the recess. I direct people to my entry in the register of interests in respect of potential conflicts with overseeing public appointments, as I have worked as a consultant for a number of public sector organisations, including the Scottis...
As part of the Scottish Government’s commitment to testing, all the homes will have been fully tested by this coming Monday 25 May. To date, my understanding is that three staff have tested positive.
My professional indemnity insurance quote this year included a different retroactive date, which meant that we would not have been covered beyond a certain date.
(S4F-02751) Unemployment is down by 14,000 over the past year and is now 70,000 below its recession peak in 2010. It is up over the last quarter, in part because more people are moving into the labour market who previously were not looking for work.
I endeavoured to emphasise that we face not only constrained resources in the future as a consequence of the recession, but the build-up of commitments that have not yet been fully funded.
I became a member of the European and External Relations Committee on the last sitting day before summer recess in 2008. Having gone off for recess, I ended up having major surgery in the first week back in September, and I was then off for all of September and October.
However, the private sector has been struggling to get back up to pre-recession levels of building. The latest statistics show that things are starting to turn, so it is looking promising.