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The scale of the challenge to decarbonise Scotland’s buildings is so significant that it requires a rapid and lasting transformation of the construction sector, including: • an industry-wide investment in skills; • far-reaching skills policy reform; and • and an unprecedented recruitment and upskilling. 7. CITB’s analysis of the Climate Change Committee's (CCC) trajectories of the roll out of various low carbon interventions in its Seventh Carbon Budget has identified that Scotland requires an average of 8,800 people every year, through re-training and new roles, in domestic energy efficiency from 2025 to 2050, in order for Scotland to meet its net zero target.
Local authorities through Trading Standards must be supported to carry out this work, and new officers funded to meet the demands this new regulation of banning disposable vapes will bring.
This was supported by recommendation 26 of the REC Committee report, which found an "urgent need for an assessment of future demand as well as all associated environmental implications of the farming, fishing and use of cleaner fish".
The Committee believes that, in allowing for remote participation in hybrid meetings, the Parliament is committing to embracing technology to deliver a more inclusive, accessible and equal Parliament in the future.Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee, Official Report, 26 May 2022.
The Regulations were withdrawn and re-laid on 26 February.
The regulations are subject to the affirmative procedure (Rule 10.6) and it is for the Social Security Committee to recommend to Parliament whether they should be approved.
The previous iteration of this briefing (SB 16/26) explored this, and found that taken on the basis that the freeze was intended to compensate for a foregone per annum increase in Council Tax it could be said that the freeze, over the period 2008-09 to 2014-15, was "over-funded".
It is interesting to look back on the previous sessions. We had 26 committees in the first session; 27, excluding ad hoc committees, in the second; 23 in the third; 27 in the fourth; and 29 in the fifth.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 February 2024
A further 3,225 hectares of applications have been received to create new woodland in 2025-26, 2,494 hectares in 2026-27, 2,327 hectares in 2027-28, and 1,244 hectares in 2028-29.