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Miners, AI, and wind turbines : New Official Publications 07.05.24

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European Union

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2024 Report on gender equality in the EU. The report provides a comprehensive overview of the European Union’s progress and key actions in advancing gender equality and combating violence against women and domestic violence. It highlights significant achievements in 2023, such as the adoption of the Pay Transparency Directive and the EU’s accession to the Istanbul Convention, along with agreements on directives aimed at strengthening national equality bodies and addressing violence against women. The report emphasizes the EU’s commitment to promoting gender equality at a fundamental value and outlines legislative and policy developments at both EU and Member State levels, as well as initiatives supported by EU-funded projects.

Law and ICT. “Exponential progress in the area of ICT improves access to data and information, which in its turn can lead to greater accessibility, reduced complexity, efficiency and respect of fundamental rights in policy, law making and implementation of law. Drafting and publication of laws need to be reformed from paper based format to modern digital media.”

Public opinion in the EU regions: January-February 2024 : summary. “This Flash Eurobarometer … survey is designed to assess the views of EU citizens living in each of 194 individual regions across the 27 EU Member States.” The survey covered the following topics in the EU regions:

  • The economic situation
  • Quality of life (current situation and expectations for the next 12 months)
  • The most important issues being faced (e.g. cost of living, health etc.)
  • EU citizens’ level of optimism or pessimism when it comes to the future of EU regions
  • Trust in the EU, national governments and regional authorities
  • Views about representatives being best placed to explain how the EU affects day-to-day life
  • Likelihood to vote in the 2024 European elections
  • Effectiveness of EU initiatives to tackle issues such as climate change,
  • Economic effects from the coronavirus pandemic
  • Energy dependency
  • EU citizens’ views about most important dimensions for the future of Europe.

Westminster & the UK Government

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Miners and mining communities – research briefing. This briefing provides historical and current information on the UK mining industry and mining communities.

Large language models and generative AI – government response to the Communications and Digital Committees February 2024 report.

Policy paper: No place to hide: Serious and organised crime strategy 2023 to 2028. “The serious and organised crime strategy 2023 to 2028 sets out our response to the full range of serious and organised crime threats.”

Scottish Parliament & Government

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Scottish Procurement Policy Handbook. “This Handbook provides guidance on the rules and policies that apply to the procurement activities of public bodies in Scotland and highlights some key legal obligations.”

Readiness for remote learning: report. “The report on public schools’ readiness for remote learning summarises findings from Education Scotland’s survey which ran between June and August 2023.”

Access to counsellors in secondary schools and children and young people’s community mental health services – summary reports. “An analysis of information provided by local authorities on the school counselling service and community mental health supports in their area.”

Official Statistics

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Wind turbine appeal decisions: statistics 2002-current. “This information does not include section 36 applications or wind turbine planning applications called-in by Scottish Ministers.”

Police officer quarterly strength statistics: 31 March 2024. “Statistics on police officer quarterly strength, which gives the number of full-time-equivalent police officers employed by Police Scotland.”

Time use in the UK: March 2024. “Average daily time spent by adults on activities including paid work, unpaid household work, unpaid care, travel and entertainment. These are official statistics in development.”

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