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The Scottish Budget 2025-26 identified funding of £5 million to help support independent hospices deliver pay parity with Agenda for Change (AfC) levels for 2025-26.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
14 January 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what proportion of the international and European relations budget for 2025-26 is allocated to each of its nine international offices.
We have seen what is happening with the latest Covid variant. We cannot accurately predict anything this year and must be very careful with financial management.
It would be useful for us to get an update on what has been—I know that this will be close to your heart, convener—a Scottish Government good-news story. Thank you—I am all for good news, as you know.
Section 19A: Duty to consult on regulations subject to the affirmative procedure
Power conferred on: Scottish Ministers
Power exercisable by: Regulations made by Scottish statutory instrument
Parliamentary procedure: Affirmative
Revised or new power: New
Provision
Section 19A was added at Stage 2.
A difficult example was that, of 31 visits to a site, 29 were to do with drainage and two were of the building after completion, so while the work in which a lot of the faults were hidden was being done, nobody visited the site to see that work.
Regulation 27(1)(b) requires that, on receipt of the notice of appeal, the tribunal must send to the assessor (among other things) anything supplied under “rule 26(3)(b) (notice of appeal)”. Should this refer instead to rule 26 (or perhaps rule 26(2))?