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The Scottish Government expects to deliver 9,000 hectares of new woodland creation through the Forestry Grant Scheme in the 2024-25 financial year, and would expect a similar area to be delivered in the 2024-25 planting season.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
19 February 2024
As announced in the statement to the Scottish Parliament on 12 December 2023 His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education will arrange for HM Inspectors to carry out a national thematic inspection of mathematics in 2024, which will report in autumn 2024.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
15 January 2024
The Scottish Government welcomes the UK Government’s interest in promoting freight modal shift and notes that the target for England and Wales for 2024 -2029 is 7.5%. S6W-24203
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
11 December 2023
The Scottish Government is currently reviewing demand as part of intake modelling for the 2024-25 academic year, and targets will be published by Scottish Funding Council in June 2024.
A full list of reports and briefings considered by the Committee during the reporting year is as follows:
Section 22 reports
The 2023/24 audit of Ferguson Marine (Port Glasgow) Holdings Limited
The 2023/24 audit of UHI Perth
The 2024/25 audit of Historic Environment Scotland
The 2024/25 audit of NHS Ayrshire and Arran
The 2024/25 audit of NHS Grampian
The 2024/25 audit of NHS Tayside
The 2022/23 audit of Lews Caste College
The 2022/23 audit of Forth Valley College
The 2024/25 audit of the Scottish Public Pensions Agency
Section 23 reports
Delayed discharges: A symptom of the challenges facing health and social care
Flooding in communities: Moving towards flood resilience
General practice: Progress since the 2018 General Medical contract
Improving care experience: Delivering The Promise
Best Value in policing: Joint Best Value audit of policing in Scotland
NHS in Scotland 2025: Finance and performance
Briefings
Scotland’s colleges 2025
NHS in Scotland: Spotlight on governance
Other
Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) National Audit Office report on the Administration of Scottish income tax 2024/25, and associated Auditor General for Scotland’s assurance letter on the C&AG’s Administration of Scottish income tax 2024/25 report.
I was delighted to take the bill through Parliament in May in order to quicken the pace. The 2024 act will provide confidence to high-risk residents in a number of ways.
International Organisations (Immunities and Privileges) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2024 (SSI 2024/Draft) The next item of business is consideration of oral evidence on an affirmative instrument.
Scottish Government officials continue to liaise with VisitScotland in considering how best to build on the work of the expert working group, and the Scottish Government will conduct a full review of the operation of the 2024 act within three years of the introduction of the first scheme.
Town and Country Planning (Amendment of Local Development Plan) (Scotland) Regulations 2024 (SSI 2024/250) The next item on our agenda is consideration of two negative instruments.