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This directly impacts learners’ experiences as there is less time for teaching and learning, and also has a significant impact on teachers as they try to complete all these 17 extra tasks alongside their full duties.
I advise members that we are very pressed for time across the afternoon, so the usual plea for brevity in questions and responses has an extra significance today as I hope to get in as many questions as possible.
This will cost Scottish retailers £190 million annually, the equivalent of having to sell an extra £3 billion of goods each year to offset the cost and maintain already slim profit margins.
Again, to account for the inpatient stay, we have accounted for an extra night of hotel accommodation for a travelling companion as well as one additional day of meals.