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In 2014, we asked the keeper of the registers of Scotland to complete the land register by 2024 and we committed to registration of all public land by 2019.
To ask the Scottish Government what the deadline is for bidders for the 2016 to 2024 contract for Clyde and Hebrides Ferry Services to submit their proposals for meeting (a) employment and (b) pension obligations.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it expects Transport Scotland to issue calls for further interim tenders for the (a) ferry services and (b) harbour operation component of the 2016-2024 contract for Clyde and Hebrides ferry services.
I absolutely accept the former permanent secretary’s advice that, as we saw last year, the UK general election would not allow for the publication of a medium-term financial strategy in 2024, but it is necessary to have stronger, more detailed clarity about how the arrangements will be applied in order to develop a shared understanding.
The percentage of disadvantaged participants in Scotland has fallen from 51 per cent in 2022-23 to 45 per cent in 2024-25. In England, it has risen from 53 per cent to 55 per cent in the same period.
We now have a stable model, but we could not go through cases quickly enough to deal with the backlog, so we took the approach of pausing the system and dealing with the situation in two ways. As of 1 January 2024, all cases were dealt with as soon as they came in.