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As I set out to Mr Carlaw, the 2025-26 budget recognises the importance of local government and provides local authorities with a record funding package of more than £15.1 billion in 2025-26, which is a real-terms increase of 5.5 per cent.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-21305 by Humza Yousaf on 26 February 2019, how devolved services could be improved across the public and voluntary sector to provide better support for these families.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
24 October 2017
This tendering exercise, published on Public Contracts Scotland (PCS) on 26 August 2017, is being conducted by Scotland Excel, acting on behalf of their member local authorities.
Under the deposit return scheme, visitorsites and venues will have no choice but to use the scheme’s single logistics partner to collect returned containers.
Furthermore, analysis by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation indicates that this planned cut to Universal Credit will pull 500,000 people across the UK, including 200,000 children, into poverty3.
Official Report of the meeting
Meeting papers
19th Meeting, 2017 (Session 5) Thursday 26 October 2017
2. Consideration of continued petitions: The Committee considered PE1517 by Elaine Holmes and Olive McIlroy on behalf of Scottish Mesh Survivors - "Hear Our Voice" campaign on Polypropylene Mesh Medical Devices.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
23 September 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether a free bus travel scheme for under-26s is still being considered as part of the review of discounts available on public transport to people under the age of 26.
The Convener of the Parliament’s Finance and Constitution Committee, Bruce Crawford MSP, wrote to the Cabinet Secretary for Government Business and Constitutional Relations, Michael Russell MSP, on 26 June 2019 summarising the outcome of that consultation. 4.