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Further, at the beginning of the year, the Government announced a new fund: the £29 million aspiring communities fund, which has been matched by money from the European social fund.
We are providing funding for an additional 500 health visitors and have introduced a new enhanced universal service with key child health reviews, in addition to offering the family nurse partnership programme to all eligible teenage mothers by the end of 2018.
The report before the committee today is the latest examination of how the Scottish Government is implementing the new powers arising from the 2012 and 2016 Scotland Acts.
We need regulation, and it is important that we have it, but it has to allow for new technology that needs room to experiment, but, at the same time, be flexible enough to deal with new issues as they arise and which we cannot foresee.
There is not usually an appreciable rise in the number of complaints after elections. Of course, new members are extremely keen to become aware of what the code of conduct is all about.The other side of the coin is whether there are more complaints in the period prior to an election.
It also contains an interim target for a 42 per cent reduction by 2020, and annual targets for each year. The latest official statistics on Scottish greenhouse gas emissions, covering 2014, were published this morning.