The Scottish Government places great importance on community sports and leisure facilities, such as swimming pools. They are crucial to the wellbeing of all our country and are essential in providing opportunities for our children and young people to learn to swim.

This universal offer will provide swimming tuition for primary school children in Scotland, based on the School Swimming Framework, which addresses poverty related barriers to access.

The Scottish Government’s policy towards local authorities’ spending is to allow local authorities the financial freedom to operate independently. As such, the vast majority of funding is provided by means of a block grant.

The Scottish Government recognises the financial challenges that local government are facing and that is why the 2026-27 Scottish Budget provides record block grant funding of over £15.7 billion for local government, an increase of 2 per cent in real terms compared to 2025-26.

In 2026-27, Aberdeen City Council will receive over £528.1 million to support day to day services, which equates to an extra £33.2 million or an additional 6.7 per cent compared to 2025-26.

While it is for local authorities to manage their own budgets and to allocate the total financial resources available to them on the basis of local needs and priorities, we will work together to find collective solutions about issues that matter to the people of Scotland.

The following table lists the 12 insufficient evidence reports that have been returned to date.

The Scottish Government welcomes the BMA’s decision to call off industrial action following intensive and constructive talks. This has prevented the cancellation of operations and disruption to patient care. The 2026-27 budget provides for pay deals including for resident doctors. The final cost will be managed within the overall Scottish Government budget in recognition of our support for resident doctors through offering the same pay deal which nurses and NHS support staff accepted, including additional investment in contractual reform over the two year period it covers.

The Minister for Public Finance has assumed responsibility for determining the granting of consents for energy projects, alongside his other responsibilities with regard to planning. Oversight of other work conducted by the Energy Consents Unit remains my responsibility.

I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-43110 on 27 January 2026. All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/written-questions-and-answers.

The full grounds for Scottish Ministers' decisions are set out in the decision letter which is publicly available online on the Energy Consents Unit portal. There are no plans to change this approach.

Products are supplied via the NHS National Services National Procurement Framework NP57123. The framework provides a range of products for the bladder and bowel and is not a limiting factor to local health board formularies/availability.

Clinical leads can review when assessing patients’ needs and are able to prescribe the appropriate product based on clinical need, and subject to local health board governance.

Health Boards have published their own guidance material on bladder and bowel health, which provides detail on how these arrangements can be managed.

I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-43127 on 27 January 2026. All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/written-questions-and-answers.

The allocation of ministerial portfolios and responsibilities is a matter for the First Minister.

SEPA recently completed an update to their National Flood Risk Assessment. This was summarised in their December 2025 National Flood Risk Assessment 2025 report.

The report includes data on the number of properties at risk in a medium risk current day scenario* and the number of properties at risk in 2100 under a medium risk climate change scenario**. These are broken down by local authority and residential/non residential properties in Table B, rather than split by property type. Local authority distribution of flood risk in the appendix of the report. A subset of relevant data from that table is replicated below.

SEPA plan to publish more detailed data in March 2026.