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Members of the Committee attending Ariane Burgess MSP, Convener of the Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee, Ivan McKee MSP, Member of the Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
8 January 2026
The Scottish Government is providing £2.5 million to Cycling Scotland to deliver the Bikeability programme in 2025-26.Record levels of participation in Bikeability were maintained during the 2023-24 academic year (the latest period for which statistics are available).Additional resources for local authorities a...
The operation of Police Scotland, including the deployment of officers, is for the Chief Constable. The latest official statistics show there were 16,553 FTE police officers in Scotland on 31 March 2025.
Part 4 general 21. Section 26 provides for the Scottish Ministers to prepare, publish and review a Code of Practice on Sustainable and Regenerative Agriculture. 22.
In doing so, the minister notes “record funding of over £13.9 billion” being delivered as part of the latest local government settlement. Do members have any comments or suggestions for action?
The methodology relies on taxpayer data from HMRC’s Survey of Personal Incomes (SPI). The latest SPI data available to HMRC at the time it produced the estimate were from 2021-22.