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If we assume that new policies will not be in place until 2024 and that new practices, particularly in that sector, will take time to implement, is it too late to achieve the target?
When Dame Susan Rice from the Scottish Fiscal Commission came to the committee, she outlined in quite stark terms the fact that the funding gap is set to reach “three quarters of a billion pounds by 2024-25”. That is very much on the horizon now, in relation to budgeting.
We have committed £15 million of further investment for the parental employability support fund across 2022 to 2024. This year, £5.8 million is available, ahead of the wider investment in employability and skills and including continued investment in both the no one left behind approach and the fair start Scotland programme.
The investment that we put into housing and into getting people better jobs is vital and we need to do more but, as Bill Scott set out, the interim target must be met by April 2024, so social security will have to do what he described as “heavy lifting”.
The cladding remediation act received royal assent on 21 June 2024, following expedited consideration by this committee, yet the standard for a single building assessment will not take effect until January 2025.
Scottish Qualifications Authority: “Higher History Review 2024” Welcome back. The next item of business is evidence on the Scottish Qualifications Authority’s “Higher History Review 2024”.
In the stage 1 debate, I said: “time is of the essence.”—Official Report, 12 March 2024; c 51. Upon the passage of the bill today, as my colleague Mark Griffin has implored, time will be of the essence once again.
I hope that the strategy will be published in 2024. As 2024 is long, can the minister give us an indication of when in 2024 the strategy will be published, given that hospices have already been waiting for it for two years?
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Date answered:
3 October 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what strategies have been developed to deliver its target of eliminating hepatitis C by 2024, and whether these have been costed.