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The Committee recommends that SDS and the CITB consider how new technologies can be better incorporated into all levels of construction skills training.
We want manufacturing to be done in this country. If we are to have new technologies, new green energy and new construction, those things should be built and manufactured in Scotland.
The Bus Infrastructure Fund announced in the 25/26 budget will, we understand, comprise elements of both the Bus Partnership Fund (to partnerships for larger scale bus priority projects) and the Community Bus Fund (to Local Authorities for infrastructure and accessibility improvements such as bus stops and Real Time Information Systems).
We are clear that more needs be done to help increase the pace of delivery to better meet the worsening challenge of the climate emergency. COSLA Position Leaders met on 26 August and updated COSLA’s position on the climate emergency.
The number of site starts have been lower than previous years and affordable homes under construction has decreased. As a result, in 2024/25 and 2025/26 it is unlikely we will meet our Housing Supply Target of 141 new affordable homes per year.
Of course, we have been the only country in the UK that has had incentives in the form of loans to help people to buy electric vehicles. I suspect that the new UK Government will do something similar.
The 2025 survey by the charity Coram Family and Childcare shows that childcare costs for under-threes in Scotland have risen by 7 per cent since last year, to approximately £122 per week or £6,300 per year.
Emma Harper mentioned Borders In Recovery, which is an organisation that I would like to visit in the new year to discuss how it delivers its support services in that rural setting.
Will he outline any new measures that are being taken to identify and treat the symptoms of mental ill health early in new mums and mums to be, particularly in rural areas?