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The Committee also undertook two outreach visits, the first attending the Scottish Youth Parliament's (SYP) consultation workshophttps://syp.org.uk/ on period poverty held at its 7th sitting in DunfermlineSummary Note of Scottish Youth Parliament workshop and the second hosted by Perth and Kinross Association of Voluntary Services (PKAVS)https://www.pkavs.org.uk/ in Perth where local individuals and organisations shared their experiences of period poverty.Summary Note of visit to Perth
More detailed analysis of the oral and written evidence and information gathered from the outreach visits is set out below.
This will be particularly essential as the Commission enters a period in 2024 of appointing five new Commissioners and as we approach the date of the interim child poverty targets and the next child poverty delivery plan in 2026.
As the committee highlighted, productivity statistics for 2024 are now available and the latest data reports that Scottish output per hour worked is provisionally estimated to have 2 fallen by 1.5% in real terms compared to 2023.
Investment
Business investment is net capital expenditurei Net capital expenditure is the value of acquisitions (purchases) less disposals (sales) of fixed capital assets and is valued without adjusting for depreciation.
Section 80 of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016 amends the Deer (Scotland) Act 1996 to give SNH a new power to require a land owner or occupier to produce a deer management plan.
Paragraph 4 of annex A on page 3, which starts with the words “While no new SOPOs or RoSHOs can be imposed”, ends with the words “the latest possible date for them to cease to have effect being 31 March 2028.”