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(As agreed by Parliament on 1 February 2023)
Convener: Finlay Carson (Con)
Deputy Convener: Beatrice Wishart (LD)
Membership: The committee has 9 members
Committee meetingsThere were 32 meetings in the parliamentary year.NumberTotal meetings of the Committee32Meetings held wholly in private3Meetings held partly in private20Joint meetings with other Committees0Meetings held outside the Parliament0Meetings held remotely by video conference0Hybrid meetings7Committee membersMembersPartyNumber of meetings attended (possible total)Karen Adam (until 14 February 2024)SNP21 (24)Alasdair AllanSNP31 (32)Ariane BurgessGreen32 (32)Finlay CarsonCon30 (32)Jim Fairlie (until 9 February 2024)SNP20 (24)Kate Forbes (29 June 2023 – 10 May 2024)SNP26 (26...
Unlike other strategies, such as the Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan 2022-26, there appears to be no specific detail in the No One Left Behind strategy on the number of disabled and neurodiverse people it aims to help.
The position is slightly improved since its December 2022 Forecasts, with economic growth at 0.3% in 2023-24, rising to 1.3% in 2025-26.
The SFC also forecasts that:
Total resource funding will grow by 8% from 2023-24 to £52.6 billion in 2028-29 in real terms.
Committee consideration
The Scottish Government addresses this new power at paragraphs 25 and 26 of the supplementary DPM, stating:
Allowing Scottish Ministers to modify the definition of ‘support services’ would allow the flexibility to add additional supports that may be identified at a later date.
She commented that “there is very little scope left, nationally, in our budgets to sustain the potential volume of work from the assessments”.viiCriminal Justice Committee (Session 6), Official Report Wednesday 14 December 2022, Col 26 https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/official-report/search-what-was-said-in-parliament/%20CJ-14-12-2022?
To support this remobilisation, the completion of the new National Treatment Centres by 2025/26 is a key priority. Work is underway to recruit at least 1,500 additional frontline staff required for these Centres.
The Committee took evidence on the Bill at Stage 1 on 12 November, 19 November, 26 November and 3 December 2020.
The Stage 1 report and child friendly version of the report was published on 20 December 2020.
Committee reports
Date published:
10 December 2020
Others referred to the similarity between civil partnerships and marriage, and therefore, that there is no need to have two systems running in parallel.7Scottish Government. (2019, June 26). The future of civil partnership: analysis of consultation responses.