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When Dame Susan Rice from the Scottish Fiscal Commission came to the committee, she outlined in quite stark terms the fact that the funding gap is set to reach “three quarters of a billion pounds by 2024-25”. That is very much on the horizon now, in relation to budgeting.
We have committed £15 million of further investment for the parental employability support fund across 2022 to 2024. This year, £5.8 million is available, ahead of the wider investment in employability and skills and including continued investment in both the no one left behind approach and the fair start Scotland programme.
The investment that we put into housing and into getting people better jobs is vital and we need to do more but, as Bill Scott set out, the interim target must be met by April 2024, so social security will have to do what he described as “heavy lifting”.
An independent working group on antisocial behaviour has been set up and will report to ministers by the end of 2024. Transport Scotland will engage closely with that group.
As Emma Roddick mentioned, on present trends, the average Slovenian household will be better off than its British counterpart by 2024 and the average Polish family will move ahead before the end of the decade.
Public Administration in the Scottish Government Good morning and welcome to the 18th meeting in 2024 of the Finance and Public Administration Committee.