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Murdo Fraser: To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the latest data reportedly showing that a majority of Scottish taxpayers now pay higher income tax than those elsewhere in the UK.
Michelle Thomson MSP – Tartan Week in New York and Scotland’s cultural cachet MT MSP updates the meeting following her visit to New York on behalf of the Scottish Parliament for Tartan Week.
To ask the Scottish Government how much money was allocated to the Housing Infrastructure Fund in total for the current 2025-26 round of funding. A total of £10.066 million was set aside for the Housing Infrastructure Fund within the 2025-26 Affordable Housing Supply Programme budget reflecting spend profiles ...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
19 December 2024
When completed these projects are projected to support or create more than 1200 jobs, refurbish or bring back in to use 26 buildings and create more than 29,000sqm of business space.
It is not just about committing to a pay uplift for 2025-26 at a stage when the budget that will be available to the Scottish Government—and the colleges—is a complete unknown.
Firefighters’ Pension Schemes (Scotland) Amendment Order 2024 (SSI 2024/26) The instrument amends the Firemen’s Pension Scheme Order 1992 and the Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Scotland) Order 2007 to extend the period during which persons who were employed in Scotland as retained firefighters have access to a pension scheme.
The level of investment of about £40 million a year includes £4 million a year for 26 clinical research networks and specialty groups that provide support for research in specific clinical areas.
To meet all pressures and spending commitments within the investment pipeline, an additional £1.9 billion in 2024-25, £2.5 billion in 2025-26 and £2.8 billion in 2026-27 is required, against a funding envelope of a circa £5.9 billion.