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I have been provided with confirmation that I have met UK Government ministers at least 24 times since the change in UK Government, but the total number of meetings will be a significant number.
Mark Griffin, I will give you the time back. I challenge the assertion that the Scottish Government is taking forward a levy in the same way as the UK Government is.
A copy of this letter was laid in the Parliament on 25 October (laying number: SG/2018/228), at which time it was also flagged to the attention of the Committee and SPICe.
Prior to 2007—members will recall that there was a Labour Government in power at that time—the major component of UK economic growth was productivity growth.
The target is very ambitious: it is five years earlier than the UK target. It was set before my time, but Scotland’s target followed the Climate Change Committee’s advice.