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The Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills published the group’s initial work on 26 May, which set out concrete steps that we are taking to reduce workload for teachers.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the statement by John Swinney on 26 November 2015 (Official Report, c. 40), whether it will set out its spending plans for beyond 2016-17 before the end of the parliamentary session.
I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-21741 on 26 June 2014. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx S4W-21739
The £450,000 budget for public information activity that I announced in Parliament on November 26, 2013 is being used to ensure that people in Scotland can access the information they need to make an informed choice on 18 September 2014.
The Raasay sporting rights were advertised for let during the weeks of 19 and 26 November 2012. It is not standard practice to consult ministers for low financial value leases such as this and they were therefore not consulted.
The Minister said no specific risk assessment had been undertaken, but explained that the new approach "represents an opportunity for farmers to make better decisions about the profitability of their farms".