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One of the first things that I did as finance minister in 2007 was to remove hundreds of ring-fenced funds from local authorities to provide them with much greater scope and flexibility in how they could operate.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
27 March 2025
To dwell on the innovation and transformation section for a moment, we also have workforce planning in that section, so I can reassure Mr Simpson that workforce planning is very much in our minds, and the teaching workforce is part of our thinking around that.
The call for year one projects of the Just Transition Fund closed on 15 July 2022 and expressions of interest are currently being assessed against the published Fund criteria.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
3 February 2021
This plan has been developed to ensure that the service is best placed to meet changing demands, to best serve Scotland’s communities, and it makes reference to potential changes to the workforce skills mix.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
14 December 2017
That means that the grant’s overall size is a product of any changes to public expenditure that are made by the UK Government—which now includes the funding that was previously ring fenced for agriculture and rural development.
They emphasised the need for adequate funding, training and support for EHOs. • RM noted that with the that the DNP case investigation was led by Food Standards Scotland with the support from Falkirk Council’s Environmental Health department and Police Scotland.