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The Self-Build Loan Fund (“the Fund”) offers short-term loan funding of up to £175,000 to self-builders who are unable to access standard bank lending, to assist with development costs to support build completion.
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Date answered:
28 February 2023
Although guided by the missions set for it by Scottish Ministers, the Scottish National Investment Bank is operationally independent and makes investment decisions based on its own investment process and strategy.
In those early days, the Lib-Lab coalition proceeded hand-in-hand with Labour at Westminster. That was before the UK banking collapse of 2008, so there was ease of policy collaboration and funding between Westminster and the then Executive.
Use of Park and Ride schemes and the role of Regional Transport Partnerships Strategic Park and Ride across Scotland was considered within the appraisal process that supported the second Strategic Transport Projects Review (STPR2), published in 2022. However, the establishment of new park and ride sites was not deemed to form part of the 45 recommendations,...
By March 2027, we expect to have delivered the strategic objectives in our current 2022-2027 corporate plan, achieving our long-standing goal of meeting customer expectations for our speed of service.
Agenda item 6: Any Other Business Potential topic for future meeting – concerns over approaches to crofters for battery storage facilities on good quality in-bye croft land. Agenda item 7: Date of Next Meeting tbc by Conveners
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The courts have made rules on case management in this area (see Act of Sederunt (Ordinary Cause Rules 1993 Amendment) (Case Management of Defended Family and Civil Partnership Actions) 2022) and part of the aim of these is to try and resolve cases more quickly.
It was paused by Jenny Gilruth when she was Transport Secretary in 2022 and then “recommenced” by Fiona Hyslop with the publication of the much-delayed Fair Fares Review in March 2024.
Scotland’s emissions halved between 1990 and 2022, while our economy grew by 67%. This was the largest reduction in emissions in the UK and we decarbonised faster than the average of the EU27.