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In 2019 NatureScot (then using its statutory name Scottish Natural Heritage) strengthened the licensing regime for control of gull species, and guidance was updated in 2024 which sought to “reduce the number of licences that are issued to control gulls in towns and cities each breeding season, following new evidence on the extent to which populations are st...
Our approach is rooted in co-design, reflecting strong feedback from the 2024 consultation that reform must be shaped by the voices of those with lived and professional experience.
It will be of interest to the Committee that the Scottish Government recently published the national delivery figures for annual health checks in 2024-25 which evidenced that over six thousand people with a learning disability were offered a health check.
Fife Council has taken the decision to utilise existing modelling data and GIS school locations to rank the sites with the highest modelled data and monitoring is currently being undertaken at 5 of the schools using nitrogen dioxide diffusion tubes and portable air quality monitors (AQMesh). This project started in 2024 and progress will be discussed within...
I corresponded with the Cabinet Secretary in the course of 2024 in relation to this matter. As a consequence, my officials along with officials of Scottish Government and of the Prison and National Health Services, have worked together to devise a process to enable swift, detailed and adequate assurances for individual Requested Persons to be provided to Fo...
Issues and options Background 3. At its meeting on 12 December 2024, the SPCB agreed to undertake a review of the Futures Forum as well as the approach for that review. 4.
You previously estimated the cost of the Bill to be between £24.3 million to £40.6 million, figures which you provided to the Parliament in your Memorandum of 3 September 2024. On Tuesday, you indicated that you now consider that the costs are likely to be higher than those estimates, and agreed to provide me with the revised estimates and the workings and ...
PE2089/I: Stop More National Parks in Scotland No Galloway National Park Campaign written submission, 18 April 2025 At its meeting on 30 October 2024 the Committee heard evidence from Denise Brownlee of the No Galloway National Park campaign group.
As we set out in our previous response (sent to the committee on 15 January 2024), decisions in relation to the extended guidance were informed by the epidemiological evidence and an assessment of the risk and harm caused by Covid-19 at the time.
West Dunbartonshire Council declared a Housing Emergency on 1 May 2024. The drivers included Being unable to fulfil all our statutory duties under homelessness legislation.