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Amendment 4, in the name of Brian Whittle, is grouped with amendments 5, 23, 1, 24, 10, 25, 26, 11, 6, 12, 27, 28 and 7 to 9. I remind members that if amendment 10 is agreed to, I cannot call amendments 25 and 26, as they will have been pre-empted.
meetingId=15752 NFUS agreed that the “monitoring of divergence” and understanding the “implications” of regulatory divergence were “absolutely critical”.2Scottish Parliament. (2024, March 7). Official Report of the Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee.
In addition the Senedd has said that the legislation “represents a new restriction on the ability of devolved legislatures to effectively implement new laws in areas of devolved competence.”
I place on record the great work of my local secondary school—Knightswood secondary school—and, in particular, all the hard work that my latest school work experience pupil, Rae McGreevy, is doing to help to support Malawi and to visit the country next year.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
16 December 2025
The TTF is not open to entirely new applications at this stage.We expect the TTF to open again for entirely new applications early in the next financial year.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
26 August 2025
Significant progress has been made on the commitments from the OHIP since its publication, including through the introduction of payment reform in November 2023.We are committed to improving the number of NHS dentists across the country, which is why our Operational Improvement Plan sets out a package of actions to improve the NHS dental workforce, supported by new funding in 2025-26.Within this we will support the dental workforce pipeline through both the immediate expansion of domestic dental student numbers and the development of an innovative new training package to support international dentists in joining the NHS Scotland workforce.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 January 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what the estimated cost is for delivering a new Edinburgh eye hospital. As set out in answer S6W-32929 on 15 January 2025, the Scottish Government have confirmed that the replacement of the Eye Pavilion is a strategic priority and the 2025-26 Draft Budget has provided the necessary funding to allow the development of the business case to restart.NHS Lothian’s Eye Pavilion replacement program had progressed to an Outline Business Case, the second of three approval stages, and therefore no Full Business Case or final estimate of costs has ever been produced.We also do not yet have an updated cost estimate of a new eye hospital in Edinburgh, therefore it is not currently possible to answer this question.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
12 December 2024
Published consultation responses and an analysis report can be found at: Review of the Regional Strategic Bodies within the Glasgow and Lanarkshire college regions - Scottish Government consultations - Citizen SpaceI can confirm that the Scottish Government will be proceeding with plans to:Dissolve the Glasgow Colleges’ Regional Board, the Regional Strategic Body for the Glasgow college region;No longer have New...