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Thank you very much for having us back so soon after our last visit to the committee. On behalf of the commission, I offer you all good wishes for the new year.
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the latest teacher number statistics, and what steps it is taking to retain teachers at all levels of education.
Amendments 134 and 135 moved—Mairi Gougeon—and agreed to. Amendment 26 not moved. Amendment 27, in the name of Mercedes Villalba, has already been debated with amendment 6.
As a Green MSP, I have always been a strong advocate of investment in rail, new rail stations, decarbonisation and the reform of fare structures and pricing.
I am not saying that I share that view, not least because the CCC recommended the approach, but can you reassure the committee that we will not see new modelling, a new system, or any diminution in our efforts as a result?
The attending members from that committee had to be considered as ‘visiting members’ which meant that they were unable to attend the private part of the meeting.iSocial Justice and Social Security Committee. (2025).
The existing Housing to 2040 strategy should also be a key component in tackling the emergency, but currently lacks an implementation strategy which the Committee recommends is required.
Members of the Committee visited Argyll & Bute Council in November 2024 to explore their response to the housing emergency.
This work was undertaken with the aim to inform the forthcoming review of the TCA and the future relationship between the UK and the EU; the focus of the first part of the work being on trade in goods between the UK and EU.
The Committee visited Brussels on 4-5 November to discuss the findings of the report at meetings in the European Parliament and the Eur...
The Committee undertook a fact-finding visit to the Marine Directorate science laboratories in Aberdeen on 2 September 2024 and took evidence from marine stakeholders in a roundtable discussion on 4 September 2024.