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Our efforts to address the crisis to date have generated some lessons and local successes, but we urgently need to accelerate and scale up those efforts to drive landscape and seascape scale recovery.
One way in which it could do that is through funding local authorities to enable them to continue their summer holiday food programmes, which provide targeted support for families that are in need and ensure that children get at least one hot meal a day.
I think that it can play an important role in constituencies such as mine in the east neuk, where there is a real problem with the growth of second homes and holiday lets. However, not many councils outwith the Highland areas know about that power or those trusts.
Planned construction completion November 2022. NHS Lothian are also in the early stages of developing an Initial Agreement for a regional cancer centre for the South East of Scotland.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
17 January 2020
DWP responded in writing at official level on 6 August confirming that they would not provide the Scottish Government with data for 6-16 year olds until nearer 2022. The then Secretary of State Amber Rudd confirmed this on 15 August in a letter to myself.
To ask the Scottish Government what projection Skills Development Scotland has made of labour market needs in (a) 2022, (b) 2027 and (c) 2037, broken down by sector.
Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill (G) Passed, 22 December 2022 Following an Order under section 35 of the Scotland Act 1998 made by the Secretary of State for Scotland, this Bill cannot be submitted for Royal Assent in its current form.
S5W-13680 Michelle Ballantyne: To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to tackle the reported increase in the number of term-time holidays taken by pupils, in light of the reported concerns that it is damaging their education.