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Cryptocurrency - a digital representation of currency, issued privately rather than by a bank or government and backed by cryptographic processes such as blockchain.
Any changes need to be based on fact, and fishermen must have confidence that the scientific evidence is accurate and up to date. How will the Scottish Government ensure just that—that the evidence that it is using is accurate and up to date?
The evidence that we have had said—Dr Hosie, I think that you mentioned this when you last gave evidence—that our levels of, for example, food poverty and food bank use suggest that we are not really delivering a minimum core.
There is another really interesting but depressing statistic in paragraph 4.48 in the report: “Disability prevalence has risen from 19 per cent of the UK population in 2002-03 to 27 per cent of the population by 2022-23.” Do your projections expect that trend to continue, to stay the same or to reverse?
The financial memorandum to the bill states that the age of 17 and a half would be the cut-off point for referral, but we know from the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child’s general comment 24 on child-friendly justice that the relevant date in human rights standards is the date when the harmful behav...
The growing picture around regional banks that we mentioned earlier is about being able to control that further, by being able to call on banks between particular areas.
The original proposal for the Firth of Forth MPA was for one large bank to be an MPA that would encompass the three smaller banks that the MPA covers now.