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Around 19 per cent of employees in Scotland are paid below the living wage. In Wales, the figure is 26 per cent and, in Northern Ireland, it is closer to 30 per cent.
It took evidence over four meetings and visited Alloa and Irvine. The Committee's report made a number of recommendations, including increasing local procurement spend by setting targets in each local authority action plan.
Notes of fact-finding visits and engagement activity
On 7 January 2025, the Committee undertook informal engagement with members of The Assembly, a group comprising of people with a learning disability and autistic people, about the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill.
The Committee held a formal evidence session on 2 December 2021 to examine the 2020-21 annual report and accounts of Social Security Scotland. We also made 2 visits to the Social Security Scotland Headquarters in Dundee.
Following a call for evidence, the Committee agreed to investigate the issues raised in more detail with the Marine Planning Partnerships, and undertook visits to Orkney, Shetland and Clyde in November 2019.
It is our understanding, from Education Scotland’s latest monitoring, that almost half of councils have issued surveys to parents or pupils and have active communication strategies.
We have recently introduced a medium-term financial plan, which helped us a lot in the latest budgeting round because it laid out the scale of the challenge that is before us over the next three years.
I was able to see how her report was translated by the civil service into a set of actions, and I have been able to examine the latest information that has been provided on what actions have been taken and on how things are going.
Inverclyde Economy I thank the First Minister for visiting Inverclyde last week. Will he indicate what support the Scottish Government can offer Inverclyde to stimulate the local economy and house building?
If we are, that means that there will be no visits to that home for 28 days. That is further evidence of the dreadful way in which we have treated older people for the duration of this pandemic.