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That support includes the availability of more than £4 million to fund irrigation lagoons in order to improve water quality and drainage in rural areas.
On 5 April, the First Minister announced a further £1 million of inclusion health action funding for this financial year. The funding enables practices to take practical action to tackle challenges that they and their patients face in relation to health inequalities.
Together, by raising industry awareness and building the workforce’s relevant skills, we can—if you will excuse the pun, Presiding Officer—carve out a “boulder” future for the Scottish stone industry.
One point that the BMA made forcibly last week was about the pressure that doctors feel as a result of the rising demands and workloads that are being placed on them. There are not just funding issues; there is an ageing population and there are on-going staffing problems.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on progress with the operation of the Developing the Young Workforce programme in Fife.
Individual officeholders’ budgets do not contain any contingency funding. The contingency fund is used for additional funding requirements that cannot be met from approved budgets.
The Scottish Government has provided an additional £12.6 million in funding to continue the provision of food to families eligible for free school meals during the course of the school summer holidays.