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Much of the Scottish Government’s current marine policy is, I think, driven by Scottish Green Party ideology and misleading international comparators, rather than by science-based evidence.
The 25 per cent increase that was delivered in 2021-22 compared to 2020-21 is cause for optimism that things are improving, although that comes with all the caveats about peaks and troughs.
For countries in the European Union, the largest decrease in the number of rail passengers was in Ireland, where numbers dropped by 74 per cent during the pandemic compared with the fourth quarter of 2019—a fall of 9.5 million passengers.
The revenue budget for Scottish Enterprise is pretty much flatlining in real terms compared to last year and, as you admit, as inflation rises that becomes a cut.
One of the key problems was that the lateral flow test was compared directly with the PCR test without taking into account that they are two different types of test.
Are you satisfied that each education authority is capturing data in the same way so that it is directly comparable? I know that there is always a problem with data.
In effect, it removes a whole bunch of talent that we desperately need in a tiny country such as Scotland. We must de-anchor ourselves from the idea that normal is okay—it is not okay.