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We are also investing £11.6 million through our rural community-led fund; developing a remote, rural and islands housing action plan; and investing in digital infrastructure, despite the fact that responsibility for broadband is reserved to the United Kingdom Government.
To ask the Scottish Government what impact the reduction in the Skills and Training budget in 2017-18 will have on Skills Development Scotland's ability to grow the economy and develop the workforce.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
7 September 2015
SDS has a dedicated employer helpline and a specific web service, Our Skillsforce, offering help on planning, recruiting and developing a skilled workforce: https://www.ourskillsforce.co.uk/.
The purpose of my bill is to establish a youth work strategy, a youth work fund, professional development, collaboration and integration, and national standards and evaluation.
Audit Scotland’s recent report on the planning of the primary care clinical workforce recommended improvements to data collection, the monitoring of the GP contract and the simplification of workforce planning.
Land was acquired by the common good fund; master-planning was undertaken; and individual plots were sold for self-build or to developers under contract to town councils.
S6W-36597 Stephen Kerr: To ask the Scottish Government whether it considers the level of funding for the Social Housing Net Zero Heat Fund to be adequate to meet its stated targets.
I am pleased that Cadder has already benefited from £1 million of regeneration capital grant funding, with the development of a state-of-the-art community facility, which the housing association manages in partnership with Glasgow City Council.