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The electricity transmission grid will need substantial reinforcement including the addition of new infrastructure to connect and transmit the output from new on and offshore capacity to consumers in Scotland, the rest of the UK and beyond.
Agenda item 3: Dr Wali Tasar Uddin MBE, Chairman of Europe Bangladesh Federation of Commerce and Industry (EBFCI) • Video Presentation of EBFCI recent visit to Bangladesh which aimed to strengthen business ties between UK, EU and Bangladesh.
We have had a good response from a number of local authorities. The latest is 500 units in Aberdeen that needed refurbishment and had been seen as surplus to requirement.
I saw an example of that when the Rural Economy and Connectivity Committee visited a forestry company that desperately needed new recruits to work the machinery in which it had invested heavily.
The overall package that has been announced today, including new money, new flexibility and new and existing local revenue-raising powers, adds up to a package that is worth more than the COSLA figure of a £237 million cut to local services.
Therefore, this corrective instrument had to come into force on 8 June 2025 at the latest, to avoid errors in the first instrument having practical effect.
The next statutory review would, therefore, be the latest point by which we would expect to have a legislation in principle, but do not think now is good overall assessment on the impact the reformed NPF is having on Scotland’s progress on wellbeing and sustainable the right time given the Government's development.