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Jacob Bronowski's landmark television documentary, "The Ascent of Man", ITV's "The World at War", which for the first time screened the raw images, and the Labour peer Lord Janner's personal testimony in Parliament all played a part in encouraging me to investigate for myself the crimes against humanity about which the wider world had been made aware in detail only on 29 November 1945 and 19 February 1946, when the American and Russian prosecution teams respectively screened evidential documentaries at Nuremberg before the 21 Nazi defendants and international opinion.Dr G M...
PE1850: Natural flood prevention on grouse moors
Petition by Les Wallace calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to make the use of natural flood prevention methods a condition for obtaining a grouse moor licence.
The most likely grounds are those in section 67(2)(m) and (n) of the Children's Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 - i.e. the child's conduct has had, or is likely to have, a serious adverse effect on the health, safety or development of the child or another person; or the child is beyond the control of a relevant person.
Currently, "it is EU law that secures the UK internal market in matters such as public procurement, agricultural support and state aid"2Murphy, M.C., Keating, M., Bell, D., McEwen, N., Kenny, M., Larner, J., … Hughes, K. (2020, February 3).
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 February 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive by how much the average life expectancy for (a) men and (b) women has increased in each year since 1979, and by how much it estimates it will increase in each of the next 10 years. Actual life expectancy at birth (LE) for males and females in Scotland for 1979 to 2004 and projected for 2005 to 2014 is shown in the following table: Year Males Females Year Male Female LE Change LE Change LE Change LE Change 1979 68.4 - 74.5 - 1997 72.6 0.6 78.1 0.3 1980 69.0 0.6 75.2 0.7 1998 72.6 0.0 78.2 0.1 1981 69.1 0.1 75.4 0.2 1999 72.7 0.1 78.2 0.0 1982 69.3 0.2 75.3 -0.1 2000 73.2 0.5 78.6 0.4 1983 69.7 0.4 75.7 0.4 2001 73.4 0.2 78.8 0.2 1984 69.9 0.2 75.9 0.2 2002 73.4 0.0 78.9 0.1 1985 70.1 0.2 75.8 -0.1 2003 73.8 0.4 78.9 0.0 1986 70.1 0.0 76.3 0.5 2004 74.3 0.5 79.4 0.5 1987 70.5 0.4 76.5 0.2 2005 74.5 0.2 79.5 0.1 1988 70.5 0.0 76.7 0.2 2006 74.8 0.3 79.7 0.2 1989 70.7 0.2 76.2 -0.5 2007 75.1 0.3 79.9 0.2 1990 71.1 0.4 76.9 0.7 2008 75.4 0.3 80.1 0.2 1991 71.4 0.3 77.1 0.2 2009 75.7 0.3 80.3 0.2 1992 71.6 0.2 77.3 0.2 2010 75.9 0.2 80.6 0.3 1993 71.4 -0.2 77.0 -0.3 2011 76.1 0.2 80.7 0.1 1994 72.1 0.7 77.7 0.7 2012 76.4 0.3 80.9 0.2 1995 72.1 0.0 77.7 0.0 2013 76.6 0.2 81.1 0.2 1996 72.0 -0.1 77.8 0.1 2014 76.8 0.2 81.3 0.2 Source: Government Actuary’s Department (GAD).
Scottish Government's Promoting Equality and Human Rights budget (Outturn except where otherwise specified)Cash, £m Real terms (£m)*Real terms % change on previous year 2008-0922.326.32009-1022.926.71.3%2010-1120.122.9-13.8%2011-1219.121.5-6.2%2012-1319.721.71.1%2013-1418.820.4-6.3%2014-1521.723.214.0%2015-1622.523....
On behalf of the Subordinate Legislation Committee, I propose amendment 96A, which seeks to amend the Government’s amendment 96.Section 170 of the bill enables the Scottish ministers to make rules about the practice and procedures of the children’s hearings system, but we are concerned specifically about section 170 (2)(a) to (m). As the bill stands, those ...