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We need to consider how we support the business community in understanding how technology might disrupt existing practices and what kind of skills they will need in future compared to what they need now. Thanks very much.
They have been sitting together and reading their statements together, with an obvious opportunity to compare what they have each said, as they were not supervised.
The CMA also identified that profitability in the house building sector is still very high compared with areas such as construction, where there is a 5 per cent margin compared with a 25 to 30 per cent margin in the house building sector.
There has not been so much of a culture of CPD in Scottish agriculture compared with other areas such as Wales, which has the farming connect advice service, standard models and requirements for recording CPD.
If we are dealing with seabirds, for example, we may need two years’ data to understand what is happening—one year is not enough to allow us to compare. Some of these things just take time to get right.
I might be wrong, but I would say that the figure is around 9,000 applications—although not all of them have resulted in a disclosure. When we compared it with Clare’s law, the use of the scheme in Scotland was much better.