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I am aware of the agreed and proposed actions that are contained in the Edinburgh integration joint board’s savings plan for 2025-26 and am confident that every effort is being made to ensure that all stakeholders, including service users, are properly consulted and that services continue to provide essential support.
The Scottish Government is investing around £6.9 billion in social security benefits in 2025-26, and that is projected to increase to £8.7 billion in 2029-30.
I say to him that, in about six or seven weeks’ time, Parliament will face a vote on the budget, which will include the provision of winter fuel payments for all pensioner households in 2025-26. Will the Conservatives vote for that?
Motion moved, That the Parliament agrees that consideration of the Transvaginal Mesh Removal (Cost Reimbursement) (Scotland) Bill at stage 1 be completed by 26 November 2021.—George Adam Motion agreed to.
That, of course, would all be put at risk by those who would refuse to allow new investment and new licences. A managed decline of the North Sea industry would put at risk tens of thousands of jobs in the north-east of Scotland and 200,000 jobs across the UK.
Finally, Scotland continues to seek consistent, positive, net inward migration from the rest of the UK, and the latest available figures show that that was around 10,000 people, which we welcome.
(S6O-01659) Policing is, and will continue to be, a priority for the Government. The latest data, from 30 September, shows a higher number of officers in Scotland than there were in 31 March 2007.