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Scotland has a wealth of experience and learning from previous refugee schemes and we have held discussions with experienced stakeholders including Room for Refugees. The New Scots strategy is providing the foundation for our response to Ukraine.
The Scottish Landlord Register provides data on the number of private landlord registrations, for example in relation to the number of new applications, renewals made and the number of properties these relate to.
As set out in the 2021-22 Programme for Government, we plan to introduce a new £2 million Textile Innovation Fund in the first half of 2022 to support businesses working in this sector to address issues associated with textile waste and throwaway culture.
As such, correspondence between organisations is considerable and recent requests were deemed manifestly unreasonable. Any new request for information under FOI/EIR would, of course, be considered on a case by case basis.
It is an existing criminal offence to knowingly make a false statutory declaration and the Bill creates a new offence of knowingly making a false application for legal gender recognition.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 April 2022
With the exception of controlled subjects, the Scottish Government does not specify allocations of funded places for new entrants to university, as this decision is made by universities as autonomous institutions.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 April 2022
It is considered that primary legislation may be required to create a new offence that involves the threatening or abuse of railway workers specifically and that is something we will wish to explore within our deliberations.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
23 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the timescale for revising the Clean Air Act 1993 in coordination with local authorities and SEPA, as outlined in Cleaner Air for Scotland 2. Our new air quality strategy 'Cleaner Air for Scotland 2 - Towards a Better Place for Everyone' sets out a series of actions intended to deliver fur...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
11 March 2022