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I will ensure that Tavish Scott is kept up to date with those discussions. I reassure the member about the work that we are doing to reduce ferry fares.
Brussels 2a is being renegotiated as we speak, with a new version due to come into force in 2022. Clearly, it must be doubtful whether Scotland and the United Kingdom will be party to that but, as it is, we are going back to a convention that Brussels 2a is pretty well based on.
That is not something that we try to do. The main reasons for the bank’s optimism are that it expects a swifter pick-up in business investment than we do and slightly more consumer spending activity.
To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the statement by the chief economist at the Bank of Scotland that "April's barometer showed the strongest improvement in the Scottish jobs market for 11 months."
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Date answered:
10 December 2020
Therefore, in order to not overshoot the target, recruitment was slowed down. As a result, the target date for reaching 15,000 individuals tested per fortnight was moved from the beginning of November to the middle of November.
The modelling showed that employing an additional five trial courts could return JP scheduled trials and the trial delay to pre COVID-19 levels by March 2022, two years faster than option 1.