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I note that, just by happenstance, Creative Scotland today launched its latest application round for £2 million-worth of funding for theatre and dance companies to go on tour.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 October 2025
To ask the Scottish Government when it anticipates that it will publish its health andsocial care winter preparedness plan for 2025-26. The Scottish Government will set out its approach to winter preparedness for 2025/26 in due course.
We participate in the PISA exercise, which is an international survey whose latest results were published last week, and we intend to continue to participate in it.
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (Framework) Order 2022 was laid in Parliament on 31 March 2022, and the framework was brought into effect from 26 May 2022. The new fire and rescue framework has been fully reviewed and updated.
We are committed to growing the sector even further and have recently announced £3.5 million in funding for projects under our community and renewable energy scheme in 2025-26, building on the success of last year’s £1.5 million pilot fund, which supported 23 projects.
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.