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The next committee meeting will be on 2 May, when we will consider public petitions and our future work programme. 10:19 Meeting continued in private until 12:47.
It is first for Richard Gass and it is about short-term assistance. The Scottish Fiscal Commission has made an assumption—with many caveats, it has to be said—that as many as 90 per cent of people in receipt of ADP could be accessing short-term assistance.
Private sector employees working on the same contract may not, however, benefit from comparable terms and conditions, resulting in a two-tier workforce.
A core part of the programme has been the work with enterprise agencies to draw on their skills, capacity and experience to deliver funding programmes.
We are committing to specific actions as follows: • We will add to the narrative reporting in the next accounts to explain how the sums borrowed underpin the capital programme as a whole and will link to or repeat information on borrowing that is in other reporting. • The Committee is familiar with the six-monthly Major Capital Projects and Programmes Reporting which provides insight for Parliament and the public on the delivery of the Programme of activity set out in the Infrastructure Investment Plan.
We will, of course, continue to engage with rural and island communities and stakeholders as this work develops. National Marine Plan 2 Our new Programme for Government announced our intention to a develop a new National Marine Plan for Scotland (“NMP2”).
The purpose of the majority of private items was to consider the approach to specific AGS reports (e.g. to consider which witnesses to request oral or written evidence from) or to consider our work programme.