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I thank the cabinet secretary for his helpful reply, but will he tell me what the percentage uplift in premises connected to faster broadband in the Stirling area has been as a result of investment from digital Scotland superfast broadband compared with what it would have been without that investment?
Members should ask themselves this: why is it that a nation that is blessed with such assets and wealth cannot be allowed to share that prosperity—unlike Norway, which is a small independent nation that is comparable to Scotland but is in surplus, and not in deficit?
We now have 79,000 more people in payrolled employment compared with January 2020, and there are 3,400 living-wage-accredited employers in Scotland, with 64,000 workers having had a pay rise as a result of that particular intervention.
How do the undoubted benefits of a short-term let property compare, for example, with the benefit—the “social good”, to use Murdo Fraser’s phrase—that is brought by a family living in that house 365 days a year and contributing to that community?
Child winter heating assistance can therefore achieve a lot less and provide a lot less comfort for those households in the year that we are in now compared to the year in which it began.
We have increased the level of debt that is required for a creditor to pursue bankruptcy action through the courts. That is now fixed at £5,000 as compared with £3,000 prior to the pandemic.