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S5W-14642 Kezia Dugdale: To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-13901 by Keith Brown on 31 January 2018, what target has been set to increase the number of its suppliers that have signed the Business Pledge.
However, we are now three years on from the publication of that strategy, and we had actually started to mention this about 10 years ago—I figure that I had brown hair at the time. At that point, we really expected to be well under way by now, but we are not, so that is where we need to start.
Perhaps one of the most liberating things that an individual or a community can discover, if we are talking about place-based culture, is that their community has produced writers and literature, whether that be James Hogg in the Borders, Irvine Welsh in Leith or George Mackay Brown in Orkney. In the past, we have assumed that schools will deal with that, b...
I appreciate that this has been a source of speculation, so I commissioned an international panel of experts chaired by Professor James Brown from Sydney, who is a professor in official statistics, and including the UK national statistician, Sir Ian Diamond.