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Our programme for government and “Women’s Health Plan—A plan for 2021-2024” include undertakings on that, which I hope indicates the importance that we attach to the issue.
This year, it has made a promise to build the same prison, by 2024, at a cost of £110 million. Will it be third time lucky, or a hat trick of broken promises, cabinet secretary?
Changes to the funding of secure accommodation places is being considered as a key aspect of this activity and is due to conclude in 2024. Policy measures and objectives of the Bill 219.
We have put our money where our mouth is, with over £15 million having been—or committed to be—spent between 2021-22 and the recent 2024-25 budget, and there are loads of local projects on cultural aspects specifically but also on accommodation in six local authority areas.
Due to pressure from the various organisations around this table, reference to venison production in terms of Scottish food output was included in the recently passed Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Act 2024 at stage 2. That was an important step and a small foot in the door.
We collated everything into a list of priorities and, in 2024, we went out to the community to do a deep dive that involved asking people to set their top five priorities.
Fares are set in advance of a period, so the idea is to produce the report by the end of the year so that implementation of recommendations can start—but not be completed—from 2024-25. What engagement have Transport Scotland officials had with their UK counterparts to hear about and learn lessons from the £2 bus fare cap that was introduced in January?
You also said: “we note that the green freeports will not be fully operational until at least 2024 or perhaps even 2025. We therefore suggest that the qualifying period should be extended to at least 7 years.”
We will continue to seek a section 30 order so that a referendum would be on lawful grounds, as per the last referendum in Scotland, while recognising that there will be a UK general election in 2024-25 and that in the future the constitution of the UK could clearly change again.
We should not be going through that in 2022, 2023, 2024 or going forward. We can tackle rural loneliness with better public transport and better ways in which people can get around.