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The number of consultant vacancies across all specialties rose from just over 100 in 2010 to more than 400 in March this year. Over the same timeframe, the number of nursing vacancies shot up from more than 500 to nearly 2,000.
Reusing steel from decommissioned oil and gas rigs instead of melting it down for recycling could cut associated carbon emissions by more than 80 per cent. In March, I published a report that sets out the potential value of remanufacturing to Scotland.
We are more than two thirds of the way towards delivering our five-year target of 30,000 additional affordable homes by March 2016, including 20,000 homes for social rent.
The number of civilian police staff posts fell by 2,056 between March 2010 and June 2014. Police and fire and rescue service control rooms in Dumfries have recently closed.
—Official Report, Referendum (Scotland) Bill Committee, 28 March 2013; c 314. As Murdo Fraser will hear, I acknowledge that Governments do not always like what comes out of the courts.
Regional selective assistance awards provide vital support to help businesses to grow. In the year to 31 March 2014, those offers were worth a total of £52.5 million.