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We should also remember the latest figures for April to June: we can expect demand to be even higher in the winter months as households choose between fuel and food.
Incidentally, we are encouraging not just those who supply goods and products to the Scottish Government, but all parts of the business community. While visiting a company today that does not rely on Scottish Government finance, I encouraged it to sign up to the business pledge and I am sure that it will do so.
According to the Chartered Institute of Taxation:
...making changes by expedited bills so late in the implementation of a new tax is not ideal and does not provide taxpayers with the clarity and confidence they need to prepare for and engage with the new tax from day one.
Consumer behaviour, energy advice and information
The Committee explored how to influence consumer behaviour in relation to making their homes more energy efficient and adopting new technologies. Witnesses suggested that the Plan relied too heavily on new technologies and that there was a lack of information on chan...
SP-18-007, and never directly with media owners or channels. Using standard media buying software, common to the sector, media buying agencies can access data showing the volume of media purchased by their competitors.
In my speech on that topic in 2023, I expressed my disappointment in the Government’s decision to roll back funding that it had announced for Scotland’s colleges and universities, yet the latest budget has allocated a real-terms resource funding cut to colleges and universities.
Recently, the Cabinet Secretary for Justice visited Dundee to see in action the new digital evidence sharing capability—DESC—service that is being piloted there.