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Health and social care workers should continue to test themselves regularly to reduce the risk of spread of infection in higher risk settings; as should care home and hospital visitors. All ongoing testing in higher risk settings will be kept under regular clinical review.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
1 October 2021
On 8 January 2020, Mr Stewart, the then Minister for Local Government, Housing and Planning, emphasised the importance of the safety of visitors, hosts, neighbours and local residents in his statement to the Scottish Parliament.
Can you give some indication of what that might mean in future years? Our commitment is to deliver 250,000 hectares of peatland restoration between now and 2030.
For example, Labour members repeatedly said to me that the Government should nationalise and buy out the train refurb site at Springburn, in Glasgow, and I had to stand here and say that we could not do that because we could not satisfy those tests in that situation.
Discussions are under way with NHS Lothian about the disposal of the Astley Ainslie hospital and its surrounding site in my constituency. For many people, that is not just a hospital but a green space, a walking route and part of the community.
He knows that I will meet CalMac later this week and raise with it the issue of replacement services and how Government might be able to better support replacement vessels in the future. He is absolutely right to raise the issue of the resilience of the fleet.
We therefore would have been at this point at some stage in the future anyway; alongside—as Rhoda touched on—an inflated budget, given the problems that the project has already hit.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
12 September 2023
It may be helpful to know, according to the UK Government’s Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) there are two Scottish onshore wind sites in the database recorded as decommissioned and no offshore wind sites.
There is a theme—it is part of the conflict—to encourage crofts to be divided and made smaller and smaller until all that you end up with is a whole bundle of house sites. Stewart Stevenson has a quick question, and then I want to look more generally at the future of crofting.