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In certain areas, achieving this balance may require a reduction in numbers of whole homes offered for short-term lets and local authorities have been given powers through the planning control area regulations to help manage activity in their area.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
23 December 2021
The Scottish Government does not commission the production of SIGN guidelines and are not aware of plans from HIS to publish a SIGN guideline for adults with Cerebral Palsy (CP). The member may find it helpful to view the documents contained on this evidence page of HIS’s website, which provides information and guidance on how requests are assessed, and ...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
10 December 2021
Peterhead is the only Scottish gas fired power station, however there are other facilities such as at Grangemouth that occasionally may provide electricity to the grid.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
8 November 2021
Under Section 2(3) of the National Parks (Scotland) Act 2000, a proposal for a new National Park must identify the area to be designated and the proposed functions of the new National Park Authority. We are aware that several areas may be interested in National Park status, so a fair and transparent bidding and evaluation process will be put in place to ide...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 October 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether the First Minister’s ex-chief of staff, who left the role in May 2021, received any payment, additional to her monthly salary, when leaving the role.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 September 2021
The purpose of a preliminary hearing is to - ensure that the purpose of the inquiry is achieved when the inquiry takes place, consider the scope of the inquiry and identify the issues which are in dispute, and consider the information likely to be presented at the inquiry and the manner in which it should be presented. The sheriff may order as many prelimi...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 September 2021
Special Advisors are contracted to work a minimum of 37 hours per week. For the period 7 May 2021 to 16 September 2021 an average of £13.20 per week was claimed on expenses in total by Special Advisers.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 September 2021
Analysis of the responses highlighted a disparate range of views, expectations and desired outcomes from a strategy including feedback that a separate strategy may not be the best mechanism to achieve improvement in this area.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
21 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether the COVID-19 Inquiry will assess possible errors and criminal negligence that may have been made in the care of COVID-19 victims in home care settings.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
21 September 2021