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Evelyn Tweed: To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the construction of the new women’s prison facility to replace HMP Cornton Vale in Stirling.
In 2021 that target was replaced with a target for at least 4,000ha per annum and there has been a commitment to review this new target as part of the new Biodiversity Strategy.
Instead, she raised funds and sent a medical team of 100 women to the front line in France to set up a field hospital. That was followed by 26 hospital units in several countries.
The run-up to the 26th conference of the parties—COP 26—has helped that focus. The recent countdown to 26 event, which was run across all the innovation centres and Scottish Enterprise, brought a huge amount of focus to that.
Peterhead, for example, has seen a 26 per cent fall in volume in fish this year, with a 29 per cent increase in the raw material price, and that cannot be passed on to the consumer because of the economic crisis throughout the world.
We must consider the importance of culture and cultural change in transformational work to create and develop the new NCS. New structures may only be one part of delivering Scotland’s care services.