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Decisions: The Committee agreed to focus its pre-budget scrutiny for 2025-26 on the financial position of integration joint boards, to issue a call for written evidence, and to invite selected stakeholders to give oral evidence after summer recess.
These include—
around five local authorities are expected seek to designate an Area of Linguistic Significance in the first five years
the National Gaelic Strategy is expected to cover the five-year period from 2028
the National Scots Strategy and the statutory guidance will be developed in 2025/26
regulations setting education standards for both Gaelic and Scots are expected around 2025-26.
Correspondence to the Convener from Neil Gray, Cabinet Secretary for Wellbeing Economy, Fair Work and Energy, Scottish Government, 26 January 2024.
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The aim of this reasonable priority group is to free up larger homes for families currently on the allocation list.1Scottish Government. (2019, February 26). Social housing allocations in Scotland: practice guide.
Dear Convener,
Thank you for your letter of 4 February about the letter from the Equality and Human Rights Committee (EHRC) to myself of 26 January.
Since 26 January I have engaged in correspondence with Baroness Falkner of the EHRC which I enclose here.
Committee reports
Date published:
18 November 2021
The policy note states that—
These Regulations amend the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Requirements) (Scotland) Regulations 2021 (the ‘Principal Regulations’) to provide that persons who are a nominated representative of an organisation which has been accredited by the United Nations Framework on Climate Change for entrance to the COP 26 Blue Zone are deemed to be fully vaccinated for the purposes of entry to the COP 26 Green Zone.
The Committee recommends that to ensure consistency with section 26(2)(a), section 26(2)(b) of the Bill should be amended to ensure that where there is no surviving spouse or civil partner, that a cohabitant should be required to have lived with the victim/survivor for a minimum period of 6 months before being able t...