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Will the cabinet secretary work with HIE to ensure that there is sufficient accommodation—accommodation is lacking in some of the smaller villages along the route—to help to cater for the increased visitor numbers? Success is a good thing to have and I congratulate everybody involved.
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Date answered:
12 January 2023
Initially Argyll and Bute and NHS Highland were one of a number of areas that did not submit an expression of interest in relation to national support and funding.
As a note of caution, it is worth pointing out that, as we emerge from lockdown, health visitor data shows an increase in developmental delay for children who are starting nursery.
You heard last week from the minister that the Scottish Government is working in liaison with the UK Government on what action could be taken on wet wipes.
Have universities contacted the Scottish Government to express their concerns on that issue? I am not aware of recent contact from the universities on that issue.
Other examples of PEF inputs include nurture rooms, outdoor learning, music therapy, sensory gardens and extra classroom assistants, to name but a few. In 2025-26, further funding was provided to bolster the ASN workforce and teacher numbers nationally and locally.
Back in November, we tragically lost Scotland’s women’s international Siobhan Cattigan, at the age of only 26. That was a terrible loss of someone so young, who was playing at the top of her game.