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The Scottish Government wrote to the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Tuesday this week, with the support of the Labour Party in Scotland, on the decision to increase the supplementary tax on North Sea oil and gas producers, with a paper analysing and highlighting the risks that are posed and suggesting solutions to safeguard the viability and continued devel...
How would it impact on competitiveness for us to insist that anyone who designs a new tartan must produce a woven textile sample of it? Surely that would increase business for textile producers.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
23 August 2018
Guests included representatives from current and potential investors in Scotland, GlobalScots, retailers of Scottish produce and a range of other businesses and sectors including culture, tourism and education.
A healthy living award is given for 50 per cent of produce being healthy. The other 50 per cent may not be healthy, and both choices are freely available to people.
From memory, I think that some of the detail produced by justice analytics showed that the general trend is that the peak in offending—regardless of gender—is moving to the right; the group is getting older.
I am not known for fawning, but, looking at the UK finances, I think that you and your team deserve full credit for producing a budget that focuses, in particular, on continuing the creation of wealth with new hubs in London, Dublin and Brussels and through digital connectivity.