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Mirren, the first paragraph of your submission says: “COSLA would further welcome a future opportunity ... to provide oral evidence to the Committee on some of the wider aspects concerning the Ambitions into Action Inquiry and expand on experience to date.” Let us kick off with that, then.
I do not know whether this figure is correct—it is probably a few years out of date—but in Holland, for example, the aggregated figure for funding to universities from central Government is 61 per cent.
The devil is in the detail, but some of the detail exists elsewhere and some of that is out of date. We identified a number of plans, strategies and national policy statements that we consider to be out of date: “Scotland’s National Marine Plan” is from 2015, the “Designing Streets” guidance is from 2010, “Creating P...
The letter of response states clearly that I look forward to meeting the COSLA presidential team on, I believe, 20 January. If I have got that date wrong, I will correct the record.
I am not promising that it will happen on that exact date, because fieldwork, surveys and so on will have to be carried out and then the report produced.
Thus, in failing to embed a holistic, climate action ethos at local and regional levels, the programme in the UK (to date) constitutes a missed opportunity.
However, I will deliberate on them and I will come back to members at a later date, either in writing or in the chamber.I take this opportunity to wish everybody a very happy recess.