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The SQA has given teachers a longer period to formulate those judgments in order to enable the assessment process to come to a conclusion so that certification can be issued on 4 August—the date on which it was always designed to take place.
I will provide the committee with a mid-year report on revenue and spending to date alongside the spring budget revision when it is published, to improve the transparency of the budget management process.
We are reviewing the Scottish Agricultural Wages Board because it dates back to 1949. Members will agree that, in this day and age, it makes sense to review a body that was set up so long ago.
We need to ensure that councils are at the forefront of the economic recovery; they are an anchor employer in many areas, so it makes sense that they are empowered and at the forefront of that recovery through developing new income streams—for example, by establishing municipally owned bus companies and community investment banks and enabling the transition...
The west might concentrate more on insurance while the east does more on aspects relating to life and wealth management and retail banking. We can look at where the regional strengths play to the advantage of Scotland as a whole and capitalise on where those strengths lie.
I will say more about that later if someone asks me the right question, but it means that we are having to create our own bank of clinical advisers. Over the past year, we have seen an increase in health service complaints and the uphold rate is still quite high.