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(ID: 212129677) Raising the issue of rurality, Caroline Vosburgh highlighted the potential difference in understanding of what constitutes sustainable development in Edinburgh compared to, for example, rural Inverness, and that definitions may need to evolve over time.
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Date answered:
11 March 2020
There was a 24.3% increase in starts on ELC related modern apprenticeship frameworks in 2018-19 (2,102 starts) compared to the previous financial year where there were 1,691 starts in 2017-18.
The cost of an independent review of the reduction and then removal of PRA for GDP and retail sales statistics will depend on the individual or organisation appointed to undertake the review, and on the time and parameters required of that piece of work. 9. It is challenging to find comparative figures from a similar undertaking.
The most recent data for Scotland shows that 12 per cent of adults reported using vapes or e-cigarettes in 2023, compared with just 10 per cent the year earlier.
I am not aware of that, but we have to remember that those numbers are compared against forecast numbers, so it depends on how the forecast is calculated.
A member of our staff has been looking at the legislation in international comparators and setting us against it. There is a United Nations rating and ranking system to measure the regimes.
We have done a great deal of work, but by no means all of it—we might need to come to the fact that a great deal of work still needs to be done to deliver mitigation of the two-child cap—but the fact that we now have the Scottish child payment makes the difference, compared with where we were previously.
Different timeframes are used throughout: sometimes data taken over a year is compared to data taken over three years, and there is no rhyme nor reason to it.