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Ensign of the Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency. The Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency (SFPA) was an Executive Agency of the Scottish Government.On 1 April 2009, the Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency and Fisheries Research Services were merged with the Scottish Government Marine Directorate to form Marine Scotland, part of the core Scottish Government.
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The oil industry in Scotland was largely created upon the discovery of North Sea oil. The country is one of the world’s leading oil producers, and in 2020, oil and gas contributed £13.8 billion to the Scottish economy and supported 100,000 jobs. [ 1 ]
Scotland has a more generous social care system than England, with free personal nursing care for adults over 65 [141] and those under 60 with certain medical conditions. [142] Scotland's more generous social care provision results in Scotland's per capita spending being 43% higher per capita than England. [143]
There was also a more general Save Scotland’s Water campaign, and in the face of public opposition, the water industry in Scotland remained in the public sector. [9] In 2002 the Scottish Parliament passed the Water Industry (Scotland) Act 2002 merging the three providers into a single one, Scottish Water.
The office most likely originates in the Roman-Dutch and French manorial or seignorial administrator (Dutch: procurator-fiscaal, French: procureur fiscal), who, as the fiscal in the title suggests, was originally an officer of the sheriff (the local law enforcement officer and judge) with financial (fiscal) responsibilities: the procurator fiscal collected debts, fines, and taxes.
For all of the time the channel is referred to on screen as BBC One Scotland, sometimes using overlays to replace the normal channel identifier.The station also has its own team of continuity announcers, provided by BBC Scotland, to accommodate for the variations seen in Scotland from the rest of the BBC One network, whilst also providing the channel with an added Scottish identity.
BBC Scotland is a division of the BBC and the main public broadcaster in Scotland.Its headquarters are in Glasgow, employing approximately 1,250 staff as of 2017, to produce 15,000 hours of television and radio programming per year. [1]