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That is why investment in the affordable housing supply programme is so critical. More than £900 million will be invested through the 2026-27 budget in the affordable housing supply programme, which is a record investment, while £4.9 billion will be invested throughout the spending review period.
It will go faster because they have studied in Quebec for a year. It is called the programme de l’expérience québécoise. Those programmes seem to be working very well.
We will capture that as part of our rolling programme considering the fiscal sustainability of the Scottish Government, which is part of our programme into next year.
The programme provides literacy and numeracy materials to pupils in primaries 2 and 3 and, last year, 248,000 books were provided to children across Scotland.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
11 March 2016
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason a reported 2,000 fewer homes received assistance from the Home Energy Efficiency Programmes Scotland in 2014-15 than in 2013-14.
(S6O-01119) Following the temporary suspension of all adult screening programmes in March 2020 as a result of Covid-19, the programmes have since resumed safely, and in a phased way that initially prioritised higher-risk screening participants.
As Mr Kerr knows, the Bute house agreement sets out that we will take forward a transport enhancements programme on the A96 corridor. We have already undertaken substantial development work on the programme, which tells us that dualling the entire A96 will involve substantial offline construction of new road.
Amendments 92 to 94 bring within the scope of SCOSS’s formal scrutiny remit regulation-making powers on care experience assistance, appointees, assistance given in error and information for audit.
The unfair treatment of many female employees at the council was allowed to go on for far too long, and I welcome the action that the council has taken to resolve it.