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Scottish Water will also improve monitoring and public communication on more than 1,000 highest-priority overflows by 2024, with a further £50 million of funding.
Although the recent shift indicated by Rishi Sunak to restore the 0.7 per cent official development assistance commitment is welcome, that will not be realised until at least 2024 or 2025. We also know that certain spend will be newly badged as ODA, further reducing the spend to those who need it most.
We see, for example, that CAP payments are going to roll forward to 2020. Mr Gove made a commitment to 2024, but I do not know whether that agreement has stuck or whether there is any Treasury backing for it.
A lot has been said about vision and longer-term objectives and so on, but that has not yet translated into thinking “If we start at point A in 2018 or 2017, how do we get ourselves to point B by 2021 or to point C by 2024?”. That is the thinking that really has to happen now, otherwise we will be left behind.
As the Young Women’s Movement report, “The Status of Young Women in Scotland 2024-25: Gender Justice and Young Women’s Human Rights” says, “Time alone does not drive progress.”
Beyond our support for our partner countries, through longer-term programming, we have also continued to contribute globally where humanitarian crises occur. It was reported that 2024 had the highest number of countries engaged in conflict since the end of world war two.
—Official Report, Economy and Fair Work Committee, 9 October 2024; c 25. She clearly believes that, if only Opposition parties would say nice things about SNP policies, we could trick people into moving to Scotland.
I move, That the Parliament notes the conclusions and recommendations contained in the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee’s 13th Report, 2024 (Session 6), Remote and Rural Healthcare Inquiry (SP Paper 654).