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Over the past month, I have tried to compare public sector job losses during the recession in Scotland with those in other parts of the United Kingdom.
We take out that message whenever the Parliament is in recess. I have taken it to Canada and its provinces, many states in the United States, Norway, Russia and Brussels; all of Europe has been involved.
The network meets every six weeks and it has a conference coming up on 23 February about migrants and the recession. That will be a free conference and will cover a lot of the topics that we have discussed this morning.
The current pressure that we are under in running the airport is the same as for other businesses. In this time of recession, we are feeling the acute impact of the decline in passengers.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
17 March 2016
Residential LBTT revenues in the year to date remain broadly in line with expectations, allowing for the effects of forestalling which were excluded from the original forecast for 2015-16 of £235 million.