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This should include—
ensuring that procurement teams include staff with procurement qualifications and experience of the ferry sector
applying lessons from previous procurement exercises
building in sufficient time to prepare important project documentation, such as business cases
ensuring that contract specifications are accurate, up to date and clear to p...
Impact of wider budgetary challenges on place-based culture
The Committee has taken considerable evidence to date on the budgetary challenges facing the culture sector.
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In the AAG update 2019, Professor Ritchie confirmed that transformational change “has proved the most challenging and elusive to date....
Committee reports
Date published:
18 November 2025
The Committee also requests information on any consideration the Scottish Government has made to date as to the budgetary impact of increasing carer benefits.
The Explanatory Notes state:
The Bill provides for a right for anyone diagnosed as having a drug and/or alcohol addiction to receive a treatment determination and for the person to be provided with that treatment as soon as reasonably practicable and no later than three weeks from the date of the determination.
The Bill provides that the Scottish Ministers ...
Committee reports
Date published:
1 September 2019
The system is not yet working efficiently as planned and will require significant additional investment. To date, the programme has not delivered value for money.1Audit Scotland.
We note that discussions are ongoing between the Scottish Government and Relationships Scotland about future funding arrangements. However, we also note that, to date, there have been no announcements on the outcome of these discussions prior to the Parliament's Stage 1 consideration of the Bill.
They have played a part in human history for several millennia, with a life-size carving of a salmon found in a cave beside a river in the Dordogne region of France, dated to 25,000 years ago12Musée National de Préhistoire.