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The unemployment rate for 16 to 24-year-olds was 13.5 per cent, which was an increase of 6.1 percentage points compared with the same period last year.
Business Support In a written response to me, the Cabinet Secretary for Finance confirmed that the Scottish National Party’s business support package means £10 million less for multisite businesses, compared with the situation in England.
It is a worse deal than the one that Theresa May negotiated, and a basic trade agreement of the type that Boris Johnson wants to negotiate will cost each person in Scotland the equivalent of £1,600 compared with the cost of EU membership.
That represents an increase of 1.8 percentage points compared to the figure for the previous year, and it is only 0.4 percentage points short of the Government’s interim target of 16 per cent by 2021.
As the committee report acknowledged, issues impacting on the remand population go beyond justice and can result in disruption to individuals and families that is comparable to a short custodial sentence.
In 2017-18, 830 operations were carried out each day on average, which compares with around 22 operations cancelled for capacity or non-clinical reasons.