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To ask the Scottish Government what support it is offering to any colleges that are projected to record a budget deficit in 2025-26. The Scottish Funding Council (SFC) regularly monitors individual institution’s financial sustainability and considers appropriate forms of support.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
19 December 2024
The funding for Drugs and Alcohol in the 2025-26 draft budget is £80.9m. This includes £60m as part of our commitment to provide £250m in additional funding over 5 years to reduce drug deaths and improve the lives of people who use drugs and alcohol.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
9 December 2024
To enable this work, we will deliver an Invest to Save fund in 2025-26, backed by up to £30 million of funding recognising the need to catalyse efficiency, effectiveness and productivity projects as part of the PSR programme.
Our five-year Infrastructure Investment Plan published in February 2021 includes details of around £26 billion of major projects and national programmes with more to be confirmed in future years.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
5 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its review of concessionary travel schemes. The under 26’s review has been undertaken during a period of time where there has been considerable changes in the policy landscape within which concessionary travel rests, and there currently remains a level of uncertainty as the long term impac...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
16 August 2021
To ask the Scottish Government on how many occasions the M8 between junctions 13 and 26 has been closed to (a) eastbound and (b) westbound traffic in each of the last five years.
It is important that people in Scotland receive the financial support that the UK Government announced on 26 May as soon as possible, and it is my view that introducing legislation in the Scottish Parliament is not necessary or proportionate in the circumstances, when a legislative consent motion is a suitable legislative vehicle to quickly implement the pa...
Women’s Health Professor Anna Glasier was appointed as Women’s Health Champion on 26 January 2022. Her role will be central to driving forward improvement in women’s health through the Women’s Health Plan and beyond, achieving an ambition to address the inequalities that have persisted in women’s health for far too long.
This is in addition to our Fairer Funding pilot which will see more than £60 million per year in FY25/26 and 26/27 for third sector organisations delivering front line services and tackling child poverty.