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The Scottish Government is committed to ensuring everyone who is eligible to vote can do so and is working with partners to look at potential new ways to increase registration levels amongst under-represented groups including young people and foreign nationals.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 September 2023
Earlier this year the First Minister’s policy prospectus ‘New Leadership - A Fresh Start’, reaffirmed this commitment with an interim target -promising to deliver up to 110,000 hectares of restored peatland by 2026.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 September 2023
This will need to consider any practical challenges and any costs associated with the reintroduction of a similar product that will function with the new system. A wider review of fares policy will be undertaken as part of the consultation on the Islands Connectivity Plan in due course.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
13 September 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to ensure that people in rural and remote communities know what palliative care is and how to access it. We are currently developing a new Palliative and End of Life Care Strategy with an overarching aim that everyone in Scotland receives well-coordinated, timely and high-quality palliative care around death ...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
13 September 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to support the (a) recruitment and (b) retention of (i) specialist and (ii) generalist social care workforces to deliver palliative care to rural and remote areas. An underlying principle of the new National Strategy for Palliative and End of Life Care for Scotland being developed will be equitable and timely...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
21 August 2023
The Scottish Government is providing up to £246 million to SPT, towards the estimated total project cost of £287.5 million for the Subway modernisation programme, which includes: a smartcard ticketing system; new rolling stock and signalling; refurbished stations with improved accessibility.
They have commenced a programme to develop a new case management system, which will provide greater online capability and greater effectiveness in PoA registrations.
The Shared Policy Programme in August 2021, followed by our ‘New Deal for Tenants’ consultation in December 2021 sought views on proposals to strengthen the rights of tenants including, specifically, greater rights to have a pet.
The strategy will take a comprehensive approach to improving patient pathways from prevention and diagnosis through to treatment and post-treatment care. It will encompass a new earlier cancer diagnosis vision for Scotland and will continue to focus on those cancer types that are the largest burden and have poorer survival, in particular the less survivabl...
Scottish Government analysts are considering options for increasing our understanding of the nature and level of unmet need in adult social care, and will continue to engage with external partners to develop appropriate approaches and deliver new insights over the coming months.