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Date answered:
3 September 2025
S6W-39823
This equates to around 5000 citations not being served on operational officers in pilot areas.Police Scotland are also progressing work to reduce the impact policing of events on officers such as the Force Mobilisation Model. S6W-39823
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Date answered:
2 September 2025
S6W-40261
I am pleased to advise Parliament that John Wilson, the recently retired headteacher of Broughton High School in Edinburgh has been appointed as an Independent Professional Adviser to Scottish Ministers to lead on this work.Mr Wilson will provide advice and recommendations to Scottish Ministers on what further reforms of school education could be made following the passage of the Education (Scotland) Act by the Scottish Parliament to ensure that we have an education system fit for the future to deliver equity and excellence for all.Drawing on his experience of 30 years of working in the education system, Mr Wilson will be focussed on three key areas - education governance, where he will be assessing the areas where further focus and activity is required to support school leaders; school funding, where he will reflect on 10 years of the Scottish Attainment Challenge Fund; and support for improvement, where he will be looking to establish what more could be done to ensure more consistent outcomes for secondary schools.He will be guided in his work by an advisory group made up of experienced headteachers and other education system leaders; and by headteacher panels which have been set up and which I will chair. S6W...
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Date answered:
1 September 2025
S6W-39790
This takes total funding to over half a billion pounds for the first time and means that over the course of this Parliament, we will have increased investment in primary care dental services by 33%.Scottish Government has also made provision in the 2025-26 budget for grant awards, such as the Scottish Dental Access Initiative (SDAI) grant, which pays out up to £100,000 for establishing, relocating or extending NHS dental practices in eligible areas; and the Recruitment and Retention allowance, which allows new trainee dentists to qualify for ‘golden hello’ payments of up to £37,500 in the first three years of practice. S6W...
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Date answered:
28 August 2025
S6W-39869
Since it is linked to the commencement of other provisions where there will be operational implications, there will be a 12 month lead-in period before the provisions in the next set of commencement regulations will come into force.I refer the member to a meeting of the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee on unimplemented legislation (including the 2020 Act) on 24 June 2025 regarding this commitment: Official Report (see columns 10 to 14). S6W...
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Date answered:
26 August 2025
S6W-39670
That is why endometriosis is a priority in the Women’s Health Plan and will continue to be so. S6W-39670
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Date answered:
26 August 2025
S6W-39805
The latest year in the time range is 2023, which is the most recent year for which data has been finalised.NHS Board of Residence1999200020012002200320042005200620072008200920102011201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023TotalAyrshire and Arran*****5*5***5*58*****58*7*97Borders*000**000*********512*5612*66Dumfries and Galloway**05**0*****00*56**60*7**53Fife**5*********5**0***77*910888Forth Valley********0**0*6****9769108896Grampian*****7****5*511587675812161711160Greater Glasgow and Clyde5*565**1010655581120810881218242625249Highland*********9***9*710*6*612201519154Lanarkshire*****5***5***585*779814211512157Lothian*5**5791114713101491319282015181922453430376Orkney0000**000*00*00**000*0*008Shetland000000000000000*00***00006Tayside*****5**0567578988*751316156145Western Isles**0***0*000000***0***00**18Other00000*0000*000*0*0**0000*10Total3528263230442344394548414963658481687291851191791631291683* denotes data which has been suppressed to preserve patient confidentiality S6W...
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Date answered:
26 August 2025
S6W-39675
Communities Scotland was disbanded on 1 April 2008, when most of its responsibilities transferred to the Scottish Government.Financial YearBudget (£ million)Outturn (£ million)2008-2009493.000529.7112009-2010644.006673.0302010-2011471.000516.2632011-2012342.000352.4712012-2013214.828317.9602013-2014315.164300.4252014-2015358.800358.8852015-2016461.050386.7412016-2017550.779505.6662017-2018590.589592.3062018-2019752.145745.1882019-2020827.100839.9392020-2021843.245754.4972021-2022831.615671.3552022-2023831.395748.6752023-2024751.945707.777The 2024-25 Scottish Government Consolidated Accounts are currently being finalised and are due to be published later this year. S6W...
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Date answered:
20 August 2025
S6W-39742
For inshore Marine Protected Areas, the Scottish Government is completing the necessary statutory assessments and aims to consult on proposed measures in the coming months S6W-39742
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Date answered:
18 August 2025
S6W-39542
Through the Tobacco and Vapes Bill, if passed, the retail register will be expanded to cover nicotine products, such as pouches, and herbal smoking products.Part 5 of the Tobacco and Vapes Bill contains a suite of regulation making powers to enable requirements to be set in relation to product standards, including packaging and features of products, to enable establishment of a registration scheme for products and for information to be provided to support registration and check for compliance with product standards, and for testing of products for quality and safety.The powers are exercisable by the Secretary of State but any regulations made under Part 5 of the Bill which contain devolved provision require the consent of the Scottish Ministers and my officials will work closely with officials across the other nations in connection with any such regulations. S6W...
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Date answered:
15 August 2025
S6W-39654
It is then the responsibility of individual local authorities to manage their own budgets and to allocate the total financial resources available to them, including on road maintenance, on the basis of local needs and priorities, having first fulfilled their statutory obligations and the jointly agreed set of national and local priorities. S6W-39654
