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Scotland's unemployment is lower than it has been for generations, and we have witnessed the most rapid growth in incomes and wealth creation in our history.
I suspect that, where persecution occurs—we know that it does because of the occasional prosecution—it is a rapid activity. It is not an easy thing to catch.
One of the criticisms that you make of the Parliament is on a matter that many of us share concern about, and that is the rapidity of stages 2 and 3 of bills. What should we do to improve that situation?
In most instances, there will no opportunity to exercise a right of community purchase until land is put on the market, so it would be wrong to hold out the expectation that the bill will achieve rapid or instantaneous diversification of ownership—it will not.
Colin Turnbull is the vice-president of corporate communications for AXEON, which was founded in 1998 and is a semiconductor intellectual property company that delivers building blocks to the semiconductor industry enabling rapid development of complex micro-processing chips.
I think that there are people, both in work and out of work, who do not think that they need learning. The rapid change in the economy, which is certain to accelerate in the future, means that people will have to change.
The group has considered a range of issues relating to non-ionising radiation—not just electromagnetic fields, but also ultraviolet radiation.Until recently, the main concern was power lines. The rapid developments in technology have caused the concern to switch to radio frequencies.
Geoff Hoon pointed out that House of Commons library research says that if Scotland were independent, referendums would be required in France and perhaps in Italy and in Spain before it could return to the European Union.
As I said in the committee, somebody might be assessed as needing seven baths a week and three meals a day delivered to their home, but they might actually want five baths a week, two trips to the library and a dinner party on a Friday night.