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I also met the chief executive when I visited the Southern general hospital on 9 November for the unveiling of the design of the new south Glasgow hospital.
The feedback that I have had is that the sector does not want to have to meet a lot of up-front costs for putting the new policies in place before other parts of the housing sector.
We have spent more than £150 million on new education facilities, more than £150 million on new roads and bridges—Destiny bridge is the latest—and somewhere in the region of £130 million on leisure facilities.
Technology has a role to play. A couple of weeks ago, I visited countryside conservationists who talked about a promising new app that could be used to direct the police and various people to where wildlife crime is committed.
Some of them have gone beyond proof of concept but still need to be refined. Every time that a new solution or new technology is introduced, that brings challenges with it.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee: The Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 (Licensing of Non-surgical Procedures) Order 2026 I refer to the recent consultation regarding the proposed new Order in respect of Licensing of Non-surgical Procedures.
This is in line with the requirements of the UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Continuity) (Scotland) Act 2021. Our new Strategy reflects the feedback received through our public consultation on a draft Strategy that we ran between June – August 2025.