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Alternative housing tenures are, at least in part, a response to the emergence of new categories of housing need in Scotland, following the Global Financial Crisis.
There is an oft trotted out statistic that 70 per cent of the workforce of 2020 are already in work, so if we are going to increase the skill levels of Scotland by 2020 we must educate many people who are already in the workforce.
Amendment 47 will make a minor consequential amendment to paragraph 3(19) of schedule 2, to reflect that amendment 44 will have deleted the words “the following are repealed” from the first line of that paragraph.I move amendment 18.
MSPs make laws that other people in the country have to follow, so it is important for public confidence that MSPs are seen to follow the rules, whether statutory or otherwise, that are laid down to regulate their conduct.
Other members have already quoted some of those statistics, but the one that clinched the argument for me was the following, which was provided by the BMA.
It is right that Calman considered those things, 10 years on from devolution, to iron out anomalies, to deal with identified problems, to observe the procedures that we follow and to seek to strengthen the workings of the UK and Scotland.