Chamber and committees

The Scottish Government has not had any direct engagement with Aeralis Ltd, or its representatives, following the company entering administration.

Scotland has a significant defence manufacturing base. Delays to the UK Defence Investment Plan continue to contribute to ongoing uncertainty for Scottish industry, where clarity and certainty are critical to investment and planning decisions.

The Scottish Government continues to engage with partners, including Scottish Enterprise, to monitor developments and assess any implications for investment and employment, including at Glasgow Prestwick Airport.

Our public consultation on a range of family law matters closed to responses on 21 April this year. These matters included the Scottish Law Commission's Report and draft Bill on the reform of cohabitants' financial rights on separation, cohabitants rights where their partner dies without leaving a will and extending the simplified divorce and dissolution procedures.

The consultation responses will be analysed and used as part of our final decision making process, along with a range of other available information and evidence. We will publish a report of this analysis.

The Scottish Government’s legislative programme will be agreed by Ministers and announced to Parliament in due course in the usual way.

We have already invested an additional £100 million in 2026-27 to support delivery of commitments set out in the 25–26 Operational Improvement Plan, including action to reduce waiting times.

This funding is being allocated to Health Boards to support increased activity, including delivery of the commitment to undertake at least 50,000 operations and procedures within the first 100 days. Boards have flexibility to target this funding towards the specialties and services where waiting times are most challenged.

Information on the breakdown of these additional operations and procedures by specialty and location is not held centrally, as decisions on service delivery are made locally by Health Boards to reflect differing pressures and capacity across Scotland.

In the calendar year to December 2025 the core Scottish Government made a reduction of 2.5% in its total workforce, including both directly employed FTE and contingent worker headcount, as a result of tighter recruitment controls being implemented and taking effect. The increase in the overall devolved civil service headcount has occurred in specific public bodies outside of core Scottish Government.

The Scottish Government will publish a Workforce Management Governance Framework in 2026, which will include guidance on governance arrangements and controls necessary to ensure consistent and accountable management of the public sector workforce.

As part of the Public Service Reform Strategy, we will continue to work in partnership with public bodies to review and restructure the public service delivery landscape. This includes commitments to significantly reduce the overall structural footprint across public bodies and core Scottish Government.

As these measures are rolled out across Public Bodies we will see headcount reductions there too to meet our targets going forward.

The Scottish Government supports the Scottish Events Campus (SEC) ambition for growth and recognises its strong track record in hosting conferences, concerts and events. SEC makes a vital contribution not just to Glasgow’s economy, but to Scotland’s economy as a whole. We continue to engage with the SEC and partners to understand proposals for potential expansion, including proposed commercial and investment models that the SEC, Glasgow City Council and existing partners are considering. These proposals are at an early stage and the Scottish Government has not yet received any request for financial support or investment.

The Scottish Government values the contribution of the NHS Scotland workforce and is committed to supporting those who choose to pursue a career in healthcare. Scottish Ministers have overseen 14 consecutive years of growth in the NHS Scotland workforce, invested in the terms and conditions of staff and continue to deliver activity flowing from both the Nursing and Midwifery Taskforce and the Future Medical Workforce Project to support these professions. The Scottish Government is committed to building on this progress and will set out further detail on the proposed job guarantee in due course.

Any conditions attached to grant funding for ferry services from Scotland to Europe will depend on the terms of scheme under which such a grant is made.

The Scottish Government’s Infrastructure Delivery Pipeline sets out the infrastructure projects and programmes the Scottish Government will fund over the next four financial years.

The Scottish Government is working with all Health Boards to develop a whole system infrastructure plan to identify investment priorities across NHS Scotland. Projects that had previously begun the business case process but were then paused, such as the remaining National Treatment Centres, will be considered as part of this work.

The Clydebridge Steelworks site has been non-operational since 2022. At the meeting of the Public Audit Committee on 25 February 2026 Jeffrey Kabel, Chief Transformation Officer at the Liberty Steel Group, advised that options were being explored for the future of the site and that the business had been engaging with Scottish Enterprise. Mr Kabel further stated that they were close to a significant development project for the site and that this would probably involve selling the site.

Further detail on our plan to expand mobile health services, as set out in the 2026 Manifesto, will be set out in due course. As decisions regarding the planning and delivery of services – including the use of mobile units – rest with individual Health Boards officials continue to meet regularly with NHS Boards across all policy areas to understand local provision and identify necessary actions to address emerging challenges.

Scottish Government recognises the value of ensuring high-quality and sustainable health services in all communities, and remains committed to the actions set out in the National Islands Plan and other strategic documents, such as the Service Renewal Framework, to deliver access to services across Scotland.