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To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-16521 by John Swinney on 16 August 2013, whether the Independent Expert Commission on Oil and Gas has been asked to consider the Lloyds Banking Group forecast from March 2013.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
13 March 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on the take-up of basic bank accounts. I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-12966 on 13 March 2013.
Have ministers given any indication that they expect to end the Abellio ScotRail contract on the first expiry date of 31 March 2022, or do they intend to let it continue until 2025?
Could a future trade agreement prevent the Scottish Parliament from putting environmental principles into Scots law at a future date? I am not an expert in international trade; I am more of a domestically focused specialist.
Lastly, the order will repeal certain provisions of the Land Settlement (Facilities) Act 1919 relating to allotments, principally because those provisions are now out of date and are no longer required, as a consequence of the 2015 act.
With the 2001 and 2011 censuses—even the 2011 census is already five years out of date—we have seen a doubling of the number of carers in minority ethnic populations.
Indeed, one of the announcements that I made last week to pilot project bank accounts is something that has significant benefits for the smaller suppliers in the construction supply chain.
At a fixed point in time, we take a snapshot of what we have in the bank. A week later or a month later, the figure will be different—and it could be significantly different.