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The Scottish Government has taken steps to address the historic school meal debt accrued by local authorities by increasing the funding available through the School Meal Debt Fund from £1.5m to £2.8m in 2024/25. This increase has fully met the requests made by local authorities on school meal debt.The 2025/26 budget will deliver a really strong ...
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Date answered:
9 December 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the evidence given by the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Land Reform and Islands to the Rural Affairs and Islands Committee on 13 November 2024, what specific work it is undertaking in relation to reforming the current reporting system for salmon mortalities.
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Date answered:
5 December 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the statement by the Minister for Public Finance on 12 November 2024 that more than 164,000 homes have planning permission but have not yet been built, whether it will provide a breakdown of the number of these homes in each local authority area.
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Date answered:
3 December 2024
The Fund is fully committed, with £10 million mobilised to address loss and damage, in line with our commitment to urgently meet the needs of vulnerable communities.For a full breakdown of allocations, please go to: Climate Justice Fund 2024-2026: allocations - gov.scot. S6W-31754
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Date answered:
28 November 2024
Scotland has the resources, skilled workforce, and ambition to become a leading hydrogen nation and developing this sector will create international trade opportunities in terms of our hydrogen production and across the supply chain.That is why an export plan aimed at realising Scotland’s hydrogen potential as a leading net exporter of hydrogen will be published on 29 November 2024.The plan will set out how Scotland will realise the international opportunities presented by the development of the Hydrogen sector and will outline the immediate international export opportunities and strategic actions needed to support Scottish businesses.Achieving this goal presents a great opportunity to combine the efforts of a range of partners.
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Date answered:
28 November 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-30461 by Neil Gray on 22 October 2024, whether it will provide a breakdown of how the £4,474,000 allocated to the National Elective Coordination Unit will be spent.
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Date answered:
27 November 2024
We introduced an increase to MUP in September 2024.We have commissioned Public Health Scotland to carry out a review of the evidence on restricting alcohol marketing and advertising.
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Date answered:
27 November 2024
This includes obligations for producers of pharmaceutical packaging.The Circular Economy (Scotland) Act 2024 requires that Scottish Ministers publish a circular economy strategy, which will be developed over the next two years.
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Date answered:
19 November 2024
The Health and Care (Staffing) (Scotland) Act 2019: Overview - Health and Care (Staffing) (Scotland) Act 2019: overview - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) commenced on April 2024, the Act places duties on Health Boards to ensure that at all times suitably qualified and competent individuals are working in such numbers as are appropriate for the health, wellbeing and...
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Date answered:
18 November 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has any plans to review the Environmental Protection (Single-use Vapes) (Scotland) Regulations 2024 in light of the reported growing market share of so-called high puff-count vapes.