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Housing (Scotland) Bill
The Housing (Scotland) Bill was introduced on 26 March 2024. The Bill makes changes covering protections for tenants, preventing homelessness, and other housing matters.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
6 December 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to address the 0.8% decrease in total sales in the last year reported by the Scottish Retail Consortium and KPMG.
That is encouraging and is likely to be due to the preventative activity to which I alluded, as well as to several other factors, including the new legislation that deals with the sale and use of fireworks.
Agency Agreements between Social Security Scotland and the Department for Work and Pensions There are expected to be ten Agency Agreements between Social Security Scotland and the Department for Work and Pensions in 2025/26. Social Security Scotland are currently in the process of setting budgets for 2025/26 and the forecast cost of payments under Agency Agreement is £6.9 million in 2025/26.
To what extent has that eased the pressure on the 2025-26 social security budget? It is very important that the Government does all that it can to help people with the continuing cost of living crisis, which is exactly why the 2025-26 budget allocates more than £3 billion to policies that tackle poverty and the cost ...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
13 August 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether the sale of Glasgow Prestwick Airport is proceeding; what the timetable is for the sale, and, if the potential buyer pulls out, what plans are in place regarding the future of the airport.
Examples of relevant strategies and plans (and targets set by these) could include: • National strategies - public policy outcomes o Scottish Biodiversity Strategy o Scottish Climate Change Plan o Scottish National Adaptation Plan (SNAP) o National Planning Framework 4 o Scotland's Flood Resilience Strategy o Scottish Forestry Strategy • Regional plans – agreed Scottish Government priority outputs 7 o Landscape scale nature restoration projects (identified through the SBS Delivery Plan) o Cairngorms National Park Partnership Plan o Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park Plan o Regional Landuse Partnership Plans o River Basin Management Plans o Climate Forest areas (eg Clyde, Forth etc) o Nature Networks and LDP’s 6.
The digital Digital Scotland strategy for planning Service Standard was published in assessment November 2020, setting planned for the out the framework of 5 payments year goals.