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How does the cabinet secretary propose that the games will deliver a meaningful legacy when funding cuts by his Government have left so much of Scottish sport finding it harder and harder to stay afloat? There are a couple of points to respond to, and the first is the point about the scaled-down games.
At present, new Part 1B only includes red grouse, however section 6(3) amends section 26 of the 1981 Act to enable the Scottish Ministers to make regulations to add or remove birds from Part 1B of Schedule 2.
The Committee held its first annual review of NPF4 in 2024, holding three evidence sessions. On 26 June 2024, the Committee wrote to you on the issues raised.
That pilot consists of 51 Government grants for third sector organisations totalling over £130 million over the period from 2025-26 to 2026-27.I hope that that helps.
I will bring in Alison Martin in a moment to answer that specific point, but I want to go back to your point about £27 million to rearrange the furniture.
Local Governance Review: Joint statement - September 2024
In May 2025, the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government told us:
"Programme for Government 2025-26 confirmed that as part of the conclusion of the Local Governance Review we will publish a blueprint for models of democratic community decision making and plans for Single Authority Models i...
This is illustrated in Table 1 using the fictional council of “West Muirshire”, whose Band D rate and band composition is given as the Scottish average for 2025-26. For illustrative purposes, the average increase in bill is modelled if “West Muirshire” were to increase the Band D rate in 2026-27 by 5%.