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Mark MacPherson is audit director at Audit Scotland, and David Belsey is assistant secretary at the Educational Institute of Scotland Further Education Lecturers Association.
We know from the Scottish biodiversity strategy and, as I mentioned, from the climate change adaptation programme, that it is not just our protected sites that are important—those sites make up only 18 per cent of land the moment.
Discussions are under way with the Energy Saving Trust and the bus sector to establish the bus-emission abatement retrofit programme in Scotland. To support that, we have committed £1.6 million for the first phase of the programme by March 2018.
The taxpayer contributes three times more to civil service employees’ pensions than the average private sector employer pays into its employees’ pensions.