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We are making good progress and I would hope that all members of the Parliament would get behind it. The Scottish Futures Trust claims to have delivered benefits of £132 million.
There is, indeed. If there is, could you please get to it? I ask whether there is a standing order under which you or the First Minister can clarify that I was correct, Mr Gordon was correct, the quote was correct and the First Minister was wrong.
Along with record investment in policing, innovative prevention initiatives such as that mean that Scotland continues to get safer. Recorded crime is at its lowest level in 35 years; it is down 23 per cent since 2006-07.
We have been dealing with extraordinarily important matters, but if we can have succinct questions and answers we might get to the end of the questions.
If members keep their questions short and the First Minister keeps his answers short, we will get through all the questions and—I hope—include everyone who wants to ask a question.
However, when they move into third and fourth year and have to study for formal qualifications to get them into university and college or into work, they find that there is no formal qualification for BSL for which they can get Universities and Colleges Admissions Service points and so it gets dropped.
If we could address the Scottish situation by getting health and safety devolved to the Scottish Parliament, I believe that that is what we should do.Historically, health and safety improvements have not come from above.
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Date answered:
11 October 2013