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In order to give advance notice, auditors should note that the following councils are scheduled for reporting in the third year of the programme between October 2025 and August 2026: Councils proposed in 2025/26 programme North Ayrshire Aberdeenshire North Lanarkshire Shetland Islands Glasgow City Stirling Inverclyde Angus Best Value in other local governme...
Official Report, Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee meeting, 26 February 2026. Retrieved from https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/official-report/search-what-was-said-in-parliament/pa-26-02-2026?
Ministers may be more likely to trigger inquiries than they were before, but we sometimes wonder why there was an inquiry into X when it would have been just as easy to have an inquiry into Y. The specific reasons why one inquiry happened when another did not can be rather obscure.
I have asked over many years on a number of committees how such good practice can be spread throughout local government, because a concern that I have always had is that council X might have a great project and council Y might have another brilliant project, but there is not as much sharing and cross-cutting as there should be to ensure that those projects ...
An issue has been raised on the following instrument.National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025 (SSI 2025/280) National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025 (SSI 2025/280) The instrument creates exemptions from NHS charges for people who come to the United Kingdom for medical treatment under the Gaza medical evacuation scheme and for people who are authorised to accompany them, if the need for treatment arose during the visit...
I live in a city that has loads of tenement flats, so there are always access issues. In the big place that I visited with the enumerators, what struck me was not the access but the massively low turnout; it was less than 50 per cent, and that was in the boost period after the census had officially finished.
To answer James Kelly’s question, I recognise the value and importance of family links and the impact that the restrictions, and the suspension of visits in particular, can have on those who are in custody and, importantly, on their families too.
Will she join me in encouraging local groups to apply for the available funding to put on more events and in encouraging folk from around the country to pay Ayrshire a visit? Would she like to join us at one of the events that are planned?
Will the cabinet secretary join me in thanking Auchenback Active for all the work that it does all year round, and will she accept my invitation to visit the Auchenback resource centre next year to see its brilliant work first hand?