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Is the cabinet secretary aware of the recent cashback grant for a young people’s chill-out area at the Dumfries multicultural centre, and would he be willing to visit the young people at the centre once the new facility is up and running?
One individual responding to the detailed survey highlighted that he rarely saw his local area (Dumfries and Galloway) featured in national TV news coverage, or his veterans’ organisation mentioned in Scottish Government news releases.
Secondly, as Mike Rumbles said, the Rural Economy and Connectivity Committee, of which I am a member, has visited islands in recent months and has visited Orkney.
New options come from innovation in testing outside our labs—notably, the new lateral flow devices—bringing us significantly greater capability to test more people, more often.
When we were in London, a senior civil servant or somebody from a think tank—I forget who it was—said that, in 2025-26, we are actually only in the foothills of devolution.
Does the cabinet secretary agree with me that technology and innovative thinking must be applied to ensure that the new justice centre fully serves the needs of all those in the north?
The work that we have embarked on in Scotland is very extensive. Gordon Lindhurst may not have visited Forth Valley College—he should visit it, if he has not—which is one place where we have invested in increasing the number of apprentices who are learning building skills.
The Scottish Government states that consultation took place with stakeholders on the proposals for the SAT between 26 September and 5 December 2022, followed by a programme of stakeholder engagement meetings and site visits.