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Last updated: 21 April 2021

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Whilst other public bodies have Language Plans, none deliver the services we do, so it is hard to find external agencies to compare and learn with. However, both the Gaelic and BSL officers have strong networks and can call on peers for support.

Official Report Meeting date: 27 May 2025

Finance and Public Administration Committee 27 May 2025

However, as a genuine point, minister, although I consider myself to be pretty well versed in financial memorandums—I have higher-level degrees in economics and other areas of finance—there are big parts of this financial memorandum that I find difficult to understand, because we are not comparing the same things. We are not comparing apples with apples; there are different timescales and approaches.

Official Report Meeting date: 9 May 2024

Social Justice and Social Security Committee 09 May 2024

We could ask whether we have seen an increase in people claiming PADP, compared with claims for attendance allowance.

Official Report Meeting date: 26 October 2023

Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee 26 October 2023

How do the recommendations that have been made from the audit compare with those in other nations? Are we going far enough?

Official Report Meeting date: 12 December 2024

Public Audit Committee 12 December 2024 [Draft]

I am conscious that, as with a lot of the statistics that we get, we are comparing ourselves against ourselves. How do we compare with other health services, for example, in the UK?

Official Report Meeting date: 8 June 2022

Meeting of the Parliament (Hybrid) 08 June 2022

Scotland’s GDP grew 0.3 per cent in March 2022, compared to a fall of 0.1 per cent in GDP in the UK as a whole.

Last updated: 19 December 2024

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S6W-32570 Douglas Lumsden: To ask the Scottish Government what the current subsidy per passenger is for ScotRail services, and how this compares with other rail operators in the UK.

Last updated: 28 June 2024

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S6M-12264: Alexander Stewart: FAST Stroke Detection Guidance - That the Parliament notes tAhe calls for a review of the current FAST stroke detection guidance; understands that the acronym, which stands for "face, arms, speech, time", does not reliably detect all strokes, according to the independent academic evidence cited by the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe) in its briefing for the Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee on petition PE2048; further understands that figures suggest that between 8% and 10% of all strokes are missed by FAST, and that, with over 11,250 recorded strokes in Scotland in 2022, this could mean that more than 1,000 strokes are missed by FAST in Scotland each year; considers that further SPICe evidence highlights that what it sees as the updated BE-FAST test, which stands for "balance, eyes, face, arms, speech, time", is more effective at detecting strokes when compared...

Last updated: 25 June 2024

Consultation Summary Greyhound Racing Final

The monetary value is the main problem here compared to all other working dogs, they deserve better, they aren’t horses, they are companions and helpers.