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::Through some of the reform that we have been doing in secondary legislation, uplifts will be coming in on 1 April, 1 June and 14 December. The 1 September date for the introduction of the 13 per cent uplift has been negotiated with the profession.
There are many areas to consider, and we are proceeding through the work systematically.To date, the Scottish Government has updated its guidance on the Gender Representation on Public Boards (Scotland) Act 2018.
However, on 10 November, the UK Government postponed, initially to later on 11 November and then to—I quote—“the future”. We asked for potential future dates and have received no response to date.
There had been constraints in its finance function dating back many years that do not appear to have been adequately addressed in a way that would allow it to support the effective management of public funding that goes to the college and governance decisions that need to be taken.
I think that it was June 2021 when I first announced that I was planning to introduce the bill, and it has been important to keep people up to date with what has been going on in the background and to reassure them that it would emerge at some point.