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The post-school education and skills reform programme aims to make further improvements. The 2025-26 budget allocates £656.2 million in resource funding to colleges, which is a 2 per cent uplift on 2024-25.
That is challenging, particularly when it is a brand new payment. We saw a flavour of that with the best start grant as it moved from a UK Government scheme to a Scottish Government scheme.
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I still think that such a collaborative approach is best. During the pandemic, the things that worked best were those in which we could find that agreement.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
1 September 2025
The deployment and management of police officers are matters for the Chief Constable.The Scottish Government is investing a record £1.64 billion in policing in 2025-26, an increase of almost £90 million of additional funding from the 2024-25 budget.