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The highest salary currently paid is £240,000 for the Chief Executive of the Scottish National Investment Bank. This is also the figure published in the Bank’s Annual Report 2024.
We need to do a lot of work on that and, as I said, we are working with the Scottish Government to see whether the Scottish national investment bank—or, in advance of the bank’s establishment, the building Scotland fund—can help in that regard.
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Date answered:
27 February 2025
Members indicated agreement.Council Tax (Dwellings and Part Residential Subjects) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2026 (SSI 2026/72) Council Tax (Dwellings and Part Residential Subjects) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2026 (SSI 2026/72) This instrument enables owners or tenants to submit evidence of letting, or intention to let, a property as self-catering holiday accommodation without needing an assessor’s request.
With regard to food insecurity and ending the need for food banks—which I think we all want to work towards—in June 2023, the Scottish Government published “Cash-First: Towards Ending the Need for Food Banks in Scotland” to improve the response to the crisis and reduce the need for emergency food parcels.
However work on a visitor levy was paused in March 2020 in light of the pandemic. Budget 2022-23 announced the Scottish Government’s intention to recommence this work, following which renewed stakeholder engagement was carried out.
S6W-31071 Liam McArthur: To ask the Scottish Government what its budget underspend has been for financial years (a) 2022-23 and (b) 2023-24, broken down by (i) portfolio and (ii) line item.