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This extended consultation period recognises the school holiday period and that this is also a time when many families will be buying uniform for the next school year.
That shows the priority and commitment that we are determined to deliver. The 2025-26 budget will provide £21 billion for health and social care, including a commitment to spend £200 million to reduce waiting times.
(S6O-04454) The Scottish Government has allocated to the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service £412.2 million for 2025-26, to ensure that it is properly resourced to keep Scotland safe and exercise all its statutory functions.
Does the Deputy First Minister agree that the Scottish Government’s proposed £14.2 million investment in the yard in the 2025-26 budget provides an opportunity for the yard to attract new work from both the public and private sectors, given the aspects that she has just spoken about?
That is why the recovery programme that is funded by the Scottish Government has seen the court backlog in summary cases fall by 37 per cent. We continue to invest £26 million in the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service, which is confident that the summary backlog will be cleared by March 2024.
In addition, we are reviewing the options for extending public transport concessions to people who are aged under 26, including assessing the costs and benefits so that we can fully consider financial sustainability.
Over £475 million is being invested in ScotRail’s rolling stock fleet during the franchise term. That investment includes new class 385 trains, which will provide almost 26 per cent more capacity when they operate with seven cars.
Committee reports
Date published:
11 February 2019
That Bill, introduced in the House of Commons on 26 October 2018, is intended to allow the UK to maintain reciprocal healthcare arrangements with the EU and its Member States after Brexit, in the event of either a Brexit deal or no deal scenario.
I want to follow up on what John Mason said on the IT front. The new financial memorandum says that from “2023-24 through to 2025-26 costs are significantly lower than previously estimated”.