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As other local authorities have done, the City of Edinburgh Council has received an extra £60 million, or an additional 5.9 per cent of funding, compared to 2024-25, and it will receive £73.9 million—an extra £8.1 million—in capital funding.
He raises an important point about the role of specialists in our schools, which is why the Government’s budget provides an extra £29 million to local authorities specifically for such additionality.
Before the winter crisis struck, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine said that Scotland needed 1,000 extra beds. Is it the Government’s intention to reverse the cuts to bed numbers?
The fact is that its plans are for a national care service in name only, which will do nothing to fix the problem and will not fund a single extra care worker or improve services.
Participation in extra curricular activities (school football)
Point 3 of the petition related to restrictions being placed on boys registered with professional SFA clubs, in relation to their participation in extra-curricular activities.
We heard that there was extra budget available for those things, so how much money has been set aside to assist in the tendering process for contracts?
For gynaecology, boards have reported a final position of just under 3,500 extra appointments and procedures delivered, which is due to an investment of £630,000.
The result will be an approach unlike elsewhere in the United Kingdom, where similar proposals were scrapped by the Prime Minister recently, adding some £300 extra a year on to the energy bills of private rented sector tenants.