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You also said: “we note that the green freeports will not be fully operational until at least 2024 or perhaps even 2025. We therefore suggest that the qualifying period should be extended to at least 7 years.”
We will continue to seek a section 30 order so that a referendum would be on lawful grounds, as per the last referendum in Scotland, while recognising that there will be a UK general election in 2024-25 and that in the future the constitution of the UK could clearly change again.
We should not be going through that in 2022, 2023, 2024 or going forward. We can tackle rural loneliness with better public transport and better ways in which people can get around.
We have a very good partnership with the third sector, but we will probably not be able to keep that going, given the amount of money that we will end up with in 2024-25. However, there are opportunities now for us to revise our approach by working across children’s services to look at whole-family wellbeing.
We feel that the current afforestation programme to plant 14,000 hectares per annum of forestry plantation by 2024 needs to be reviewed carefully and reconsidered, because we feel that we could be heading for a biodiversity catastrophe.
The level of resource that will come from the United Kingdom Government to the Scottish Government in 2024-25 is likely to be tight. We are going to face pressures around inflation, pay and issues such as construction costs—the inflation rate in construction is fairly scary.
However, you asked for around £10.5 million from the SCF in 2024-2025 and that figure has jumped to around £16 million for next year—that is a massive jump, which we have to justify.
—Official Report, Criminal Justice Committee, 31 January 2024; c 36. He also said that the simple majority would “possibly be conducive to miscarriages of justice in”—Official Report, Criminal Justice Committee, 31 January 2024; c 38.
The decision not only contradicts the recommendations in the ombudsman’s report, but contradicts what Labour said to get elected in 2024. For years, Labour MPs and MSPs have stated that they support the WASPI women and have promised to help deliver justice.
Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 (Licensing of Short-term Lets) Amendment Order 2024 [Draft] We turn to agenda item 4, under which we will take evidence on the draft Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 (Licensing of Short-term Lets) Amendment Order 2024 from Paul McLennan, who is Minister for Housing in the Sco...