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That includes targeted marketing of payments and assistance from local delivery teams to help people apply, with advisers available at co-located venues in Wishaw and Motherwell. The draft budget for 2025-26 includes more than £12.8 million for free income maximisation support and welfare and debt advice.
Culture Sector (Funding) To ask the Scottish Government what discussions the culture secretary has had with the finance secretary regarding whether it will deliver its commitment to provide an additional £25 million to the culture sector in 2025-26. (S6O-04060) I have had regular discussions with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government regar...
In our communications with Channel 4 and the regulator, Ofcom, including letters that were sent on 26 April, 25 June and 28 August, we have challenged the inadequate made outside England quotas that are proposed and have set out our expectation that they should be increased to at least 16 per cent, with individual nation quotas.
In correspondence with the Scottish Government—which was published online with the agenda for this meeting—the committee queried paragraph 3 of schedule 1 of the instrument, which would amend the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 by changing the words “EU obligation” to “assimilated obligation” in sections 26 and 45. In particular, the committee no...
However, they and anyone visiting the hospital are entitled to operate in a safe environment and the latest reporting of tragic events this week has shaken confidence, so we welcome the review that the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport has set up.
My goodness—was I shocked when I visited some of the new fish farms. They are sophisticated pieces of technical infrastructure in which the majority of the fishes’ development is done on land and only the last part is done in the sea.
“Building a New Scotland” (Written Constitution) To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the publication of the latest paper in the “Building a New Scotland” series, for what reasons it considers that an independent Scotland would need a written constitution.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
4 September 2015
The First Minister visited mainland China and Hong Kong from 26 to 31 July 2015 to promote Scottish innovation and deliver a programme covering education, culture, trade and investment, including oil and gas.
That pilot consists of 51 Government grants for third sector organisations totalling over £130 million over the period from 2025-26 to 2026-27.I hope that that helps.