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NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, for example, will pay £6 million in the apprenticeship levy in a year. Police Scotland and the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service pay into the levy so, rightly, they look at whether they can take a share of it back.
That is why this Government is delivering a visitor levy, a cruise ship levy, a carbon emissions levy, land tax, a doubling of council tax on holiday homes, an infrastructure levy and, potentially, a public health levy to empower local government.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 March 2022
ECO is a UK Government scheme that delivers energy efficiency measures to fuel poor households and is funded by energy suppliers through a levy on energy bills. Scotland has benefitted from approximately £691 million since the scheme began in 2013.
I will start with a question about the public health levy. In 2024, the Scottish Government did some engagement exercises and consultation with stakeholders with a view to considering whether such a levy could be added to the non-domestic rates scheme.
The minister explained that those liable to pay the levy do not want the definition widened too far and that nature conservation measures would not help the levy’s key aim of enabling infrastructure capacity issues to be addressed to allow development.
I invite him to set out the background to the establishment of the group, its purposes and the issues that the group intends to address, following which he will take questions from the committee. Alors, bonjour, et je suis très heureux d’être ici. I will do the rest in English, as I assume that that would suit the committee.
We absolutely recognise the points that the member makes about the infrastructure levy. When we considered the issue, we came to the conclusion that the existing section 75 provisions, which raise far more money than the proposed infrastructure levy would do, represent the most effective way to continue to provide in...
The power to establish workplace parking levies will be at the disposal of local authorities, which will make judgments about whether that is appropriate.