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The Scottish Government with support from SEPA and NatureScot will assess the potential costs of implementing identified improvements to the current site condition monitoring of designated conservation sites, to improve on current methods which don't detect air pollution effects.
The project also provides the surface water drainage solution for the regeneration of key vacant and derelict sites by managing the water level in the canal to provide flood storage.
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Date answered:
13 September 2021
Figures for traffic currently using the A1 from the National Traffic Data System (NTDS) count site at Grantshouse show a daily average traffic flow of 9,113 vehicles in 2019 with an average of 15.6% HGVs (approximately 1,400 HGVs per day).
Will the cabinet secretary request that the director of Fife’s health and social care partnership meet me and other Fife MSPs as a matter of urgency to discuss how and when Glenrothes’s out-of-hours service will be reinstated? I understand that a regular liaison meeting is taking place tomorrow between NHS Fife, Fife health and social care partnership and t...
Police Stations (Support for People with Mental Health Problems) I remind members that I am the parliamentary liaison officer for the Cabinet Secretary for Justice.
Do we need to use existing vehicles to bring that finance together and de-risk the investment? In the light of some of the comments that we have just heard, are city region deals or other mechanisms needed, not only to de-risk the process but to generate the huge amount of finance that is required?
The Minister for Local Government, Housing and Planning gave the Local Government and Communities Committee a commitment on a communications strategy, which we welcome, but the concerns that were expressed by the committee about progress in 2019 and 2020 are on the record.
That is why the benefits that were transferred were the non-universal credit items, apart from the ability to flex on and change some of the universal credit items at a Scottish level.