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Given the Scottish Government’s failure to forward plan, will the minister confirm that there is a shortage of young trees in nurseries to achieve our target of 12,000 hectares of new forestry planting next year?
I think there was a frustration among us because we thought that we were going to get some kind of move forward, but we are getting a new debate in the new year. Perhaps Professor Humes could go first.
New commercial activity is taken into account, as is any previously planned commercial activity that – for whatever reason – will no longer go ahead, allowing us to update the eligibility of any affected properties on an ongoing basis.
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Date answered:
15 November 2022
In our view, it would greatly assist public understanding if the New Deal was to include an agreed approach to the presentation of such funding to help reduce such misunderstanding.
In our view, it would greatly assist public understanding if the New Deal was to include an agreed approach to the presentation of such funding to help reduce such misunderstanding.
We are working with all boards across Scotland to support them in their delivery. Next year, in 2025-26, the annual health checks will feature as part of the board annual delivery plan, and Jacqueline Campbell talked about making sure that priority is given to some of those issues across the board.
That document provides a shared vision and a strategic framework for all parts of the historic environment sector to work collaboratively to achieve the sector’s full potential. Collaboration is not new to the sector; what is new is an explicit and widely shared framework for the long term.
Meanwhile, Dundee City Council is spending more than £100 million replacing two schools—Braeview academy and Craigie high school—that have swimming pool facilities, but there are no plans for a swimming pool at the new East End community campus.
The Committee recommends that SDS and the CITB consider how new technologies can be better incorporated into all levels of construction skills training.