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Yes, I do, and we are continuing to do that work, certainly through one particular piece of legislation—the Good Food Nation (Scotland) Act 2022—and the population health framework.
To go back to our concrete legal position, the difficulty is that the reservation of the union, as the Supreme Court confirmed it in 2022, could stop the Scottish Parliament and the Scottish Government doing other things that might have that triggering effect.
We are constantly interested in the differences in the strategy with regard to how we might be able to improve the figures, and the strategy “The BBC Across the UK: the BBC 2022-2027” should definitely help us there.
However, the Skills Development Scotland website shows that there have been 25,447 modern apprenticeship starts from April 2022 to March 2023, and that modern apprenticeship starts are now 91 per cent returned to pre-pandemic levels.