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Subordinate legislation: The Committee will consider the following negative instruments— Right to Buy Land to Further Sustainable Development (Applications, Written Requests, Ballots and Compensation) (Scotland) Regulations 2020. 4.
That was not on the table before. Indeed, that funding is almost three times as generous as the funding package in the Secretary of State for Scotland’s formal offer to me last autumn.
We share the frustration that our stakeholders have expressed about the lack of clarity, the lack of collective engagement on future funding and the impact that that has on the development of future policy.
Within that line is the employability and workforce skills budget, which includes programmes such as the local employability model, the employability fund, the discovering your potential fund—which is aimed at reducing inequality by targeting care-experienced young people in relation to the labour market—the disability employment gap fund and other areas such as the partnership action for continuing employment approach.
International workers (predominantly from EU countries) constitute over half of the ‘unskilled’ workforce, but also 43% of the ‘skilled’ workforce and 16% of management.
Rail safety is reserved to the UK Government and the ORR. We are fully funding the ORR’s recommendations, with an increase of £450 million in cash terms.
In January 2021, we announced a further £45 million of new funding for education recovery. That funding allows local authorities to deploy more support to schools and families as the crisis continues.
The UK Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Victoria Prentis MP said that leaving the EU provides "a unique opportunity" to develop a regulatory environment that will deliver high standards, but "be flexible according to our current and future needs".