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They also show 34.6% of inactive people aged 16 to 64 in Scotland gave their reason for being inactive as “long-term sick or disabled”, compared to 28.4% for the UK.Reducing economic inactivity can have economic benefits.
You are right to say that there is labour market inactivity: 22 per cent of Scotland’s working age population—those aged between 16 and 64—are not economically active.
Question: As mentioned, a strategic objective is to get crofts back into active use – the task of the Regulation And Land Use (RALU) team; are staff from RALU being seconded to deal with the regulatory backlog?