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The majority of the 2025-26 additional funding has been provided to Creative Scotland (including Screen Scotland). Of the £34.9 million of additional funding provided in 2025-26, £26.6 millioniThe £26.6m included £20m of new money and a “baselined £6.6m lottery shortfall”. was allocated to Creative Scotland’s multi-year funding, £2.0 million of which was intended for Screen Scotland.
For example, if our large social housing providers realised the bargaining power that they have in the marketplace, they could strike deals with energy providers to ensure that low-income tenants got the benefit of the best deals available in the marketplace—the monthly, direct-debit, online tariffs that you and I take for granted.
How can we get people to save when children are living in poverty and when there are the levels of indebtedness that Lindsay Isaacs mentioned? I visited the Motherwell and Wishaw CAB a couple of weeks ago.
I congratulate you on your elevation—today's meeting will probably be your last in this committee.It is important that the committee has shown an interest in our work and has already visited Brussels. I hope that last week's visit was good for members and that we maintain a close relationship, with members visiting institutions and learning about our work and how you can influence it.Before the meeting, we were asked to consider the committee's work programme, which looks realistic.
That was brought home to me just yesterday when I visited Hospitalfield house in Arbroath, as it wants to enhance what it has, but it is conscious that it must conserve what it has, too.
The centre provides a network of advisers, who offer information, access to tools and workplace visits to help implement the healthy working lives approach.
This can include making arrangements for family visits. In addition, the SPS currently provides financial support to Families Outside to provide information through the Scottish Prisoners'' Family Helpline.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
7 February 2011
NHS boards are required to follow Health Facilities Scotland guidance document SHTM 07-03: Transport management and car parking which advises NHS boards that an effective travel plan will address the following: employee transport to and from work; employee transport during work time; patient and visitor travel and access to sites; public transport availability; use and type of fleet vehicles; deliveries and contractors; peripatetic/community visits...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
26 August 2010
This covers, for example, short periods of home leave, pre-release leave, day release to visit ill relatives and temporary release to attend work or educational placements.
Fire and rescue authorities including Strathclyde, which covers Glasgow, also run local community fire safety initiatives. Free home fire safety visits are offered by Scottish fire and rescue services to assess homes for fire hazards and offer advice.