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We welcome the clarity from the United Kingdom Government around our 2025-26 capital funding envelope and we will target that funding to deliver on the Government’s priorities.
The Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and Islands and the Minister for Business, Trade, Tourism and Enterprise met UK Government ministers on 25 and 26 May to reiterate our concerns about the devastating impact that the UK Government-proposed deal could have on our farming communities.
Comparable restrictions can also be found in constitutional orders exhibiting 25 26 27 federal characteristics. The constitutions of Australia, Brazil and Comoros explicitly exclude the possibility of secession.
In particular, the Programme for Government highlighted commitments to:
create a £100 million Green Jobs Fund
allocate £60 million to support industrial and manufacturing decarbonisation
maintain current levels of spend on active travel at £100million per year
uplift spending in Heat and Energy efficiency from £112m in 2019-20 to £398m p.a. in 2025-26
continue to develop the Agricultural Transformation Fund
bring forward recommendations for new mechanisms of agricultural support
provide an additional £100 million to support new forestry planting.
The UK government did provide an Alternative Fuel payment in the winter of 2022, but Changeworks estimate that the gap between the payment of £200 and the fuel poverty gap is likely 26 at least £800, and probably significantly more.
Roz McCall: To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the latest Homeless Deaths 2021 figures from the National Records of Scotland, which show that an estimated 250 homeless people died in 2021.
The report makes clear the scale of the potential costs required to achieve the Scottish Government’s target of around £1.7 billion per year for the next 12 years purely for capital investment in new rail services, new zero-carbon buses, new tram systems and new light rail networks.