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N eil Gray MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Net Zero, Energy and Transport Health and Social Care Committee c/o Clerk to the Committee By email only Room T3.40 The Scottish Parliament Edinburgh EH99 1SP [email protected] Friday 5 July 2024 Dear Cabinet Secretary, SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT BUDGET 2025/2026 The Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee has decided to focus our scrutiny of the Scottish Government’s budget for 2025/26...
The extension will come into effect on 27 November, after the current emergency legislation ends on 26 November. I understand that the DHSC is continuing its considerations of a permanent ban.
For those reasons the Scottish Government is not seeking to start Stage 2 consideration of the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill on 26 November, and will work with the committee and Parliamentary Bureau to agree a revised timetable, for the New Year.
Stage 1 consideration of the Bill was completed on 26 June 2024. Decision 2. The Parliamentary Bureau is now invited to refer the Bill back to the Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee for consideration at Stage 2, and to recommend to the Parliament that consideration of the Bill at Stage 2 be completed by Friday 15 November.
We now estimate that the total spending on carer’s payments will be £477 million in 2024-25, which is £9 million lower than our previous forecast, and £536 million in 2025-26, which is £10 million lower than our previous forecast.
During consideration of the Petition at a meeting of the Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee on 26 October 2022, the Committee requested further details from the Scottish Government on the anticipated timetable for expanding early learning and childcare to all 1 and 2 year olds.
I know that Keith Brown wants to explore Scottish choices, but on rent arrears, the figure that COSLA gave us was that, in the first four local authority areas in Scotland where universal credit was rolled out, there was an average increase in rent arrears of 26 per cent over the first two years.