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I do not have the latest statistics—you have much more up-to-date information. I know that the number of women chairs was hovering at around 21 or 22 per cent but that information may be a year out of date.
They were swept along with the volume house builders and big players when the property crash happened and the banking system changed.We have to rebuild that sector.
Let us say that a rate increase is announced by the monetary policy committee, it happens immediately and banks and mortgage providers within days or weeks change those mortgage rates.
If the cabinet secretary has more up-to-date information—that figure dates from five years ago—I would be interested to learn whether any progress has been made in reducing it.
Incidentally, the bank installed its first telephone in 1881; the board said that that could be done only on the strict understanding that it would not be used to conduct business.
The document is the usual myriad of schemes, but we know from the Government’s record on such funds—shown by the growth scheme and the Scottish National Investment Bank—that it announces a big number and has no intention of ever paying out that money.