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We know that the more decisions on taxation are taken at Holyrood in future, the more future Scottish Governments will have to balance the competing interests of different voters and different taxpayers.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
17 April 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what communications it has had it with NHS Lanarkshire regarding the future of the Salsburgh GP surgery, and what action it can take to ensure that the surgery does not close.
The health board has already begun work to address existing issues and we will be expecting them to engage closely with GPs and the local community as they begin to develop sustainable, ‘future-proofed’ primary care services.
Migration is crucial to Scotland’s future prosperity, and any reduction would damage our labour market, economic growth, demographic profile and local communities.
Keith Brown has written to him to request much stronger engagement for the future. That is in the interests of the Scottish Government and the UK Government.
Where those benefits are linked to the entitlement to universal credit and we see universal credit entitlement increase in Scotland, spending in Scotland will increase.
That is why that longer-term investment in planning and understanding what staff we need and then developing them for the future is so important. I invite you to look further at that issue in a future piece of work; we will certainly raise it with the Scottish Government when it is before the committee.
Its cost is the main driver of fuel poverty in Scotland.We do not have a good baseline of how much heat is used in Scotland and where it comes from. Future growth is not well understood, unlike the future growth of the electricity sector.
In my view, postponing the exercise of powers until a future date, may change the legal effect of a Bill but does not resolve the question of its legal validity.