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As you have heard through your evidence sessions, there are many flexibilities which the Scottish Funding Council has been discussing for many years, including multi-year funding settlements and year end flexibilities, along with rationalisation of funding pots (which was also discussed in the Withers review).
When Perth and Kinross Council recently sought views about a new park, it received just 352 responses out of a population of approximately 68,000, and less than 200 were supportive, many of them living outside the area.
Fish population declines resulting from overfishing inshore nursery grounds have had untold impacts on many families that left the fishing. This historical injustice must be righted.
The Committee is also sympathetic to the view expressed in many responses to the call for evidence that there is a need for reinforced independent oversight of the duties conferred by the Bill beyond its existing provisions on review and reporting.
Written Questions Written Questions lodged on 25 November 2025 S6W-42107 Paul Sweeney: To ask the Scottish Government how many care homes in each local authority area are currently subject to moratorium and large scale investigation, and how many care beds are affected by this.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
10 August 2016
All staff are also provided with appropriate training in order to detect, deter, de-escalate and, if necessary, protect themselves, prisoners and others from violent acts.