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As well as the reduction in core funding, individual funding streams have been withdrawn, including the promised £26 million for transformation and £10 million for a flexible workforce development fund.
The 2025-26 Scottish budget provides record block grant funding of more than £15 billion for local government, which is an increase of £1.1 billion, or 5.5 per cent in real terms, compared with 2024-25.
Reform will be a key element of our Pre-Budget 2025-26 scrutiny, when we will again ask public bodies what progress is being made and how they are being supported by the Government to effect change.
Initially a group of volunteers, our challenge was to develop a new model for business support, community engagement, positive place promotion and income generation.
Initially a group of volunteers, our challenge was to develop a new model for business support, community engagement, positive place promotion and income generation.
The purpose of the CPG is to promote the shared heritage and culture between Ireland and Scotland, while also furthering communications and connections for businesses and trade.
The Cabinet Secretary told us that he is not against testing referendum questions and that any “new question that arises in a new referendum should, of course, be tested.”