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Annex 2

Scottish Government Strategic Objectives:

  • Wealthier and Fairer - enable businesses and people to increase their wealth and more people to share fairly in that wealth.
  • Smarter - expand opportunities for Scots to succeed from nurture through to life long learning ensuring higher and more widely shared achievements.
  • Healthier - Help people to sustain and improve their health, especially in disadvantaged communities, ensuring better, local and faster access to health care
  • Safer and Stronger - Help local communities to flourish, becoming stronger, safer places to live, offering improved opportunities and a better quality of life.
  • Greener - Improve Scotland's natural and built environment and the sustainable use and enjoyment of it.

Scottish Government Strategic Priorities:

  • Learning, Skills and Well-being;
  • Supportive Business Environment;
  • Infrastructure Development and place;
  • Effective Government; and
  • Equity

Scottish Government Strategic targets:

By 2011:

  • To raise the GDP growth rate to the UK level
  • To reduce emissions over the period to 2011

In the longer term:

  • To match the GDP growth rate of the small independent EU countries by 2017;
  • To rank in the top quartile for productivity amongst our key trading partners in the OECD by 2017;
  • To maintain our position on labour market participation as the top performing country in the UK and close the gap with the top 5 OECD economies by 2017;
  • To match average European ( EU15) population growth over the period from 2007 to 2017, supported by increased healthy life expectancy in Scotland over this period;
  • To increase overall income and the proportion of income earned by the three lowest income deciles as a group by 2017;
  • To narrow the gap in participation between Scotland's best and worst performing regions by 2017;
  • To reduce emissions by 80 per cent by 2050.

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