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I hope to have an initial report ready for ministers by the end of March or in April, and I hope that it will include proposals for testing things out to ensure that they do not create perverse incentives or unanticipated effects within the system.
Having lived on Skye for the past three years, I am aware that there is simply no private rental market between March and October. A great number of people are obliged to move out of accommodation in March, whether they want to or not, in order to make way for tourists.
Normally, my allocation letter from Paul Gray as director general would come in early March. For this year’s allocation, the process was extended because of other issues, so it was mid to late May before the health board was in final receipt of its total allocations and its gross income for 2016-17.
To ask the Scottish Government when it will publish its response to the goose policy review that it received from SNH in March 2018. The Scottish Government will publish its response to the goose policy review in due course.
It has been fairly firm and robust with the Government that the Government must take over responsibility for the benefit by the end of March 2026. The Government needs to have a business plan in place, as per the agency agreement, by the end of March 2025.
As we have heard, 2023’s eating disorders awareness week goes from 27 February to 5 March. Eating disorders in males, on which this year’s week focuses, are underreported.
I also take the opportunity to thank my predecessor, Judith Robertson, who led the organisation for six years and who left office in March 2021. I thought that it might be helpful to briefly explain our mandate and some headline issues.