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The service design and the digital systems developed for launch in Winter 2024-25 will be reused when Social Security Scotland delivers the payment next winter (2025-26), although some changes will be required to reflect the new eligibility rules.
To ask the Scottish Government what the remaining annual funding levels are for the Infrastructure Investment Plan (IIP) to 2025-26, and what assessment it has made of the impact of inflation levels since 2021-22 on the total IIP budget.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 September 2023
The Government must review the National Outcomes every five years and has started its latest review. During the review, the Government must:
consult with the public and consider the feedback it receives
show how they are aiming to reduce inequalities caused by socio-economic disadvantages when setting the new Outcomes
seek views from the Scottish Parliament on the proposed new National Outcomes.
Culturally, services which have always been in reality the engine room of the Parliament, may be seen in a new light and their work more widely appreciated.
Businesses reported that the value of new bookings taken across summer and early autumn (June-October 2021), which covers the normal peak trading months, represented, on average, only 31% of the value of new bookings taken over the same period in 2019.
This covers the birds which may be taken or killed on land with a section 16AA licence. At present, new Part 1B only includes red grouse, however section 6(3) amends section 26 of the 1981 Act to enable the Scottish Ministers to make regulations to add or remove birds from Part 1B of Schedule 2.
In defence of the decisions that have been made, I would say that the latest audited figures show that 43 million visits were made to libraries in Scotland and the actual usage of libraries has increased in recent years.