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The Committee will now, as previously agreed, write separately to the new Permanent Secretary, John-Paul Marks, to invite him to give evidence, on his aims and vision for the Scottish Government and its workings, at a future meeting.
GS responds that no arrival date has been agreed for the new Ambassador to arrive in the UK. DL agrees to invite the new Ambassador to join a meeting during 2022.
Such is the concern about our food culture, which is impacting terribly on our health, that leading consultants have coined the new term “diabesity”, which reflects the relationship between obesity and diabetes.
We recognise that the Government has taken steps to bring in the living wage for people who work in the sector. In paragraph 26, we set out some of the Scottish Government’s plans for additional investment.
—Official Report, Social Justice and Social Security Committee, 5 October 2023; c 26. When the cabinet secretary appeared before the committee, we asked why, given the importance of new affordable housing to reducing poverty and homelessness, the Scottish Government had cut the affordable housing supply programme bu...
‘In addition, the next Climate Change Plan must:
‘set out clear timelines for individual proposals and policies’
‘establish clear ownership and responsibility for individual proposals and policies’
‘incorporate all the new reporting requirements introduced in the 2019 Act’
‘address unresolved recommendations from previous parliamentary committee and CCC scrutiny of the CCPu’
‘allow sufficient time for scrutiny of the draft and incorporate feedback before finalisation
The latest Scottish GHG Statistics (for 2022)10The Scottish Government. (2024, June).
I have spoken previously in the chamber about a cracking new business that I recently visited on Cumbrae: Jack’s Alt-Stays, which might be described as a posh glamping business, but it is better than that.