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Questions and Answers
Date answered:
4 October 2016
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the pledge in the 2016 SNP manifesto, for what reason it has extended the target date for 100% roll-out of superfast broadband to 2021.
The correspondence indicates the issues that would be best to consider in the short term, before summer recess, and those that it would be best to consider in the longer term, perhaps after summer recess, as well as telling us that it is early days to consider those issues, which we appreciate.
In my first speech in the Parliament, 20 years ago, I promoted the need for an accessible Parliament building with a crèche, an arena for trade and industry exhibits, innovative recess schemes for young people and a resource for community groups.
For example, Labour thinks that the Government should spend the 0.1 per cent of the Scottish budget that is needed to protect families from the impact of the two-child cap. However, over the recess, the Cabinet Secretary for Social Security and Older People said: “It’s not our policy to alleviate the two-child cap.”
Yes I do, because the Scottish Government has, since 2008, used a set of measures and interventions to try to offset the difficulties and serious consequences of the economic recession. In 2009 and 2010, we successfully ensured that the recession was shorter and shallower in Scotland than it was in the rest of the Un...
I assure members that the final project reports—which will form one of the world’s most wide-ranging investigations into unconventional oil and gas—will be published in full as soon as possible after recess. As members are no doubt aware, there are strongly held views around Scotland on unconventional oil and gas, and real concerns in communities.