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A report in Science magazine in July 2017 estimated that 8.3 billion tonnes of plastic has been produced to date and that some 80 per cent—6.3 billion tonnes—of that is now waste.
In 1922, Professor John Macleod from Aberdeen, working with two outstanding scientists—Banting and Best—discovered insulin. Before that date, type 1 diabetes was a death sentence in Scotland.
The maximum number of units is 2,500. 09:30 If that is successful, would it be your intention to come back at a future date for another opportunity to do something like this, to support up to between 7,000 and 10,000 additional units?
For example, there is a requirement for children to confirm their age, but we heard that children are asked to state their date of birth rather than being asked, “What age are you?”
We are trying to identify what the timetable might be, and I hope that we will be able to bring members up to date on that—we will certainly do so in the coming months.
Our concern is that the Scottish funding council’s strategy for research and funding research in universities is somewhat out of date. It has not been revised for a while, and that needs to happen in order for the funding council to be clear that its funding is having the effect that it needs to have.
I know that you have noticed this, Mr Swinney, but £7,400 million has been pumped into two Scottish banks, so the world is not exactly the same place today as it was in 2007 when the figures were announced.