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I find it more helpful to benchmark against other Governments and to compare, for example, our spending on the civil service proportionate to some measure of the volume of activity with their spending.
Section 2.11, on page 27 of the report, indicates that the response times for 999 calls in Glasgow are very poor compared with similarly populated areas in England.
The First Minister should be aware that, compared to many European countries—such as Ireland, Portugal and Spain—Scotland jails few people per crime committed, which is the only valid measure.
No matter how often Ms Sturgeon tries to compare the last Tory rise with that in any year since the Labour Government took office in 1997, she is not going to be able to do it.
That is why we did not use those figures in our report; they do not compare like with like. We wanted to unpack the figures and we asked the department to help us with that.
It intends that that should provide information to assess progress in matching skills to jobs.There is evidence of improvement in college performance, but I believe that the funding council could do more to help colleges to compare their costs per student and their retention rates.There are continuing questions about how colleges are held to account for som...
Having gone through the budget process once, I am not clear about what would have been different at the end of the process if we had simply not bothered. Nothing much seemed to change compared with what we had at the beginning, to be honest.