Chamber and committees

We will review the Infrastructure Delivery Pipeline (2026-27 to 2029-30) at each Spending Review. It is a live document and new projects and programmes will be added to the pipeline at future updates as investment plans are agreed.

I refer the member to the answer to question S7W-00062 on 2 June 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.

We want women and girls in Scotland to experience the best possible health, throughout their lives. However, it remains an unwelcome reality that communities across Scotland experience health, quality of life and even life expectancy differently depending on their circumstances.

In order to tackle this challenge, the Scottish Government and COSLA, in collaboration with our wider partners, published Scotland’s Population Health Framework in June 2025. This takes a cross-government and cross-sector approach to improving the key building blocks of health and addressing the broad, interrelated issues that shape health outcomes across the population. These building blocks include a focus on: good early years and education; good work and income; healthy places; and equitable health care.

To further augment this approach, Phase Two of the Women’s Health Plan has a renewed focus on Optimising Future Health, supporting improvement in women’s healthy life expectancy, so they can enjoy longer healthier lives with better health, in later years.

The Scottish Government does not currently hold a risk register of care facilities at risk of failure. The statutory responsibility for providing appropriate social care capacity lies with local authorities, integrated joint boards, and integrated health and social care partnerships. It would therefore be the responsibility of these bodies to assess local population needs and consider where investment needs to be targeted to improve the social care infrastructure within their area.

The Government has committed to expanding the Displaced Workers Scheme.

This will be operational to eligible employers within the first 100 days of this administration, with further details to follow in due course.

I refer the member to the answer to question S7W-00062 on 2 June 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.

To support preparation of National Planning Framework 4, the then Scottish Government commissioned independent research on the Lifecycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions of NPF4 proposed National Developments. This was first published in 2021 and updated in October 2022.

The Scottish Government will work with RNID to agree a deliverable timetable to rollout the ‘Near You’ service nationally and further details will be set out in due course, ensuring that this accounts for any existing local service provision.

The portfolio responsibilities of all Scottish Ministers are published on the Scottish Government website at: Cabinet and Ministers - gov.scot

The Scottish Government is not routinely sighted on applications for gas connections, but we are aware there are emerging data centre proposals that may have a gas component. The Scottish Government policy position is that new AI infrastructure developments should minimise reliance on fossil fuel solutions and we encourage developers to explore renewable and sustainable alternatives to gas fired generation wherever possible.