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There is certainty: it is certain that the SNP Government will find new ways to tax Scots and tax them more than if they lived elsewhere in the UK. However, I challenge ministers on whether their tax policies are either effective or efficient.
If we do not act now, we are not only putting more people’s lives at risk, we are condemning the world to a cycle of outbreak, containment, outbreak, containment.
Many LGBT people have been through so many things in their lives that have a long-term impact, from not being able to serve in the army to being criminalised for kissing, and from living through the AIDS crisis to experiencing minority stress and social prejudice or living in ...
The Committee is particularly grateful to those who shared their lived experience to the Committee. Through the sharing of their experiences, the Committee gained a much deeper understanding of the issues impacting neurodivergent people in Scotland.
Figure 1: Number of drug misuse deaths and 5-year rolling average in Scotland, 1996 to 2024The statistics show that men are more than twice as likely to die from drug misuse than women, and the average age of those who died during this period was 45. People living in deprived areas were more than 12 times as likely to die from drug misuse compared to those living in the least deprived areas.