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To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of the population lived in (a) an owned property and (b) a council house in (i) 1950, (ii) 1960, (iii) 1970, (iv) 1980, (v) 1990, (vi) 2000 and (vii) the most recent year for which figures are available.
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Date answered:
6 August 2007
Thisequates to an incidence rate of 9 per 100,000 live births. This figure is notdirectly comparable with those presented above for Scotland as it does not include cases detected during infancy or terminations.These figures arepublished on the Clinical and Health Outcomes Knowledge Base at:http://www.nchod.nhs.uk/NCHOD/Compendium.nsf/f47084ec7cabf53b80256fc...
The historic environment is a key element of making good places for people to live and work in by providing context and connecting them to their place.
Setting an arbitrary limit seems to me to be wholly unnecessary and probably regressive, and is interference in how someone runs their business.You are touching on the live wire of how we justify the significant amount of taxpayers’ money that is spent.
Would linking rates of corporation tax with, for example, wage ratios or the provision of a living wage, which has been suggested, give us a chance to incentivise companies to change not their location but their practices?
I welcome the Government's constructive response to it but, at the end of the day, this is about living standards and the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in Scotland.