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To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide the details of its plans to increase access to land for food growing purposes referred to at page 26 of the SNP manifesto. The Scottish Government anticipates that, once brought into force, Part nine of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 will give communities more access to land for food gro...
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Date answered:
9 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of its commitment at page 26 of the SNP manifesto, what stage it has reached in taking forward the recommendations of the report, Building on Success: Deepening Collaboration, Food and Drink in Scotland.
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Date answered:
24 October 2025
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the visit to Japan by the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Action and Energy in September 2025 to lead a delegation from Scotland's offshore wind sector, on what date delegates who attended the visit with the cabinet secretary were (a) informally and (b) formally asked if they...
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Date answered:
23 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how many official visits the First Minister has undertaken in Scotland in each year since 16 May 2007, broken down by parliamentary (a) constituency and (b) region.
An analysis of written responses was published on 26 November 10 2018. The Scottish Government response to the consultation was 11 published on 29 January 2019.
We need to move towards qualifications Scotland while embracing all the opportunities that will be afforded by a new organisation with new relationships within a new educational landscape.
I asked for, and received, advice, including expert clinical views. I also visited the paediatric ward at the Royal Alexandra hospital, the new Royal hospital for children on the Queen Elizabeth university hospital campus and Lightburn hospital.
This whole thing is about how employment can help to reduce child poverty in the target groups of the child poverty delivery plan. The latest stats show that 26 per cent of the children of single parents who are in full-time work are still in poverty.
I am interested in sections 25 and 26. Concern has been expressed to the committee that trustees’ duties to provide information to beneficiaries and potential beneficiaries under those sections are too onerous and that the extent of the duties is uncertain.
The design of such schemes is intended to address some of those questions. When I visited Annan on Friday morning, I met a community that was in shock.