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Training has been provided to employees on the purchasing process and additional guidance to ApprovalMax users was supplied in the new workflows of the system on 26 April.
Business Gateway and local authorities could help to promote the new policy. It is challenging for very small businesses to keep up with the latest legislation, so we need to make sure that those who support small businesses are aware of the changes.
According to research with Scots in the last year of their lives, which was carried out by Marie Curie in 2019, 26 per cent died in poverty—that is 2,800 working-age Scots.
Cabinet secretary, although you have been in your new role for some time, I congratulate you on behalf of the committee on your appointment to this new portfolio.
The Scottish Government has committed to investing the rebates we receive from the VPAG to fund the New Medicines Fund (NMF), which provides additional top-up funding to territorial Health Boards to support the cost of introducing new medicines.
It is using all the levers of Government, from establishing processes to build new towns to amending planning policy to remove the blocks to building new homes.