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The Committee held a session with people with lived experience of homelessness.
Visit to Streetwork, EdinburghPlanning (Scotland) Bill
Community engagement involved: two online tools, community meetings, a visit and a conference.
Environment (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment etc) Regulations 2019 (SSI 2019/26) The first instrument for consideration under agenda item 5 is SSI 2019/26.
MSP Members proposed methods to help overcome these challenges in the new Parliament, including: i) managing stakeholder expectations of MSP commitments; ii) combining the CPG on Nature and Climate with other related CPGs in the next Parliament; iii) ensuring CPGs have clear aims and outcomes; iv) leading themed CPG meetings and visits outside of the Parliament Building for Members; v) encouraging further opportunities for dialogue and debate within meetings. 2.
In particular, we’d welcome your reflections on progress made in the following areas: • The New Deal o As you will be aware, the Committee has been closely following the progress being made toward a new deal for local government.
In particular, we’d welcome your reflections on progress made in the following areas: • The New Deal o As you will be aware, the Committee has been closely following the progress being made toward a new deal for local government.
That will report before the end of the parliamentary session.Local authorities spent more than £1.1 billion on additional support for learning in 2024-25, and additional funding was provided in 2025-26 to support the ASN workforce and teacher numbers.
Freedom of information data from the Scottish Government agency South of Scotland Enterprise, covering the financial years from 2021-22 to 2025-26, shows that just five loans worth £481,500 were awarded to female-led organisations, compared with 22 loans totalling more than £5.48 million to non-female-led organisations.
Pension-age Winter Heating Payment (Mid Scotland and Fife) To ask the Scottish Government how many people in Mid Scotland and Fife who are eligible for the pension-age winter heating payment have not yet received their payment for winter 2025-26. (S6O-05372) Pension-age winter heating payment will support at least 880,000 pensioners with heating bills this...
I am providing updates to the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee on implementation, and did so most recently on 26 September. Two Scottish statutory instruments on the regulation of child contact services were approved by Parliament earlier this month and will be implemented on 1 April 2027.
Any additional money is welcome, but with a record deficit of £58 million, as predicted by the health and social care partnership for 2025-26, the board’s financial position continues to deteriorate.