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We note that the £34 million uplift to funding for the sector in 2025-26 took the uplifts to date to £50 million a year, and that this is set to increase by an additional £20 million in 2026-27.
At present, the deadline for answering written questions that are lodged in the second week before the summer recess falls in the first week of the parliamentary recess, when many Executive staff are on leave.
That would allow us to hit the deck running in September when we return from the recess. I believe that we might also have to scrutinise legislation before we go into the recess.
However, I expect that we will meet sometime in October—before the recess, I hope.I remind members that, although the consideration stage is concerned with examining the detail of the bill and the objections to it, we can also take further evidence on matters outstanding from our preliminary stage report.
Members have a paper that suggests a programme up to the Easter recess. It is quite a full programme, because we are taking on the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Bill, which will require the taking of evidence.
The clerk has suggested that he could contact individual members of the committee to arrange a date that would be acceptable to us all when we could meet early in the recess.
The Scottish Prison Service may aim for women to be free of drugs, or for drug use to be stabilised in prison, but it is evident that, to date, that has been no more than an aspiration.
Cashback for communities was launched by our Cabinet Secretary for Justice, Kenny MacAskill, in January 2008 and has to date provided substantial money to youth projects the length and breadth of Scotland.