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SPICe also publishes a quarterly intergovernmental activity update which details key intergovernmental activity each quarter, including in relation to UKIMA exclusions, and provides a horizon scan.
Intergovernmental activity since July 2024
The following section provides an overview of intergovernmental activity since the UK Labour Government took office.
A startling fact is that Norway produces about 1.2 million tonnes of salmon and has 250 active farms, while we produce 170,000 tonnes, give or take, and have 207 active farms.
We can bandy statistics and numbers around, but the reality is that there are individuals in our communities who cannot get justice because they cannot afford it and they cannot get civil legal aid.
I am not suggesting that you have to dig all the way down to the foundations to get a consensus on the basis of sovereignty, because you will never get that.
Too often, people become long-term unemployed because they do not get the appropriate healthcare at the right time or the chance to get back into employment gradually.