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The Scottish Government engages regularly with SPPA, I have met with the SPPA Chief Executive 11 times in 2025. I visited SPPA on 27 August 2025 to gain first-hand insight on the latest developments aimed at improving service delivery and progressing the remedy programme.
In other words, although we very much have a visit focus, we are also focusing in a wider sense on Scotland as a country and a destination where people can live, visit and work.
Local Government and Communities Committee 26 April 2017 Local Government and Communities Committee 26 April 2017Interests Interests Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the 12th meeting of the Local Government and Communities Committee in 2017.
Introduction
In November 2019, the Committee conducted visits to Shetland, the Clyde and to Orkney to speak to MPPs, members of the community and other stakeholders to gather views on regional marine planning.
As set out in regulations, we will commence new applications for Child Disability Payment from 26 July 2021 in Dundee City, Perth and Kinross, and the Western Isles.
We also published analysis of how Scottish Child Payment interacts with the labour market in July and our latest estimates of its take-up this month, showing around 9 in 10 children eligible for the payment received it in 2023-24.
As yet, it does not align with Scottish Government’s just transition plans. As far as we are aware, there is not a just transition plan for health, for example, but it has been highlighted by the commission that part of what a new economy looks like involves valuing the low-em...
If that is to ban the sale of snares—in the same way as we propose to ban the sale of glue traps—there will immediately be a letter to notify the UK Government of our intention.