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Date answered:
24 May 2021
S6W-00035
To ask the Scottish Government whether local authorities will be able to retrospectively draw down funding under the phase three timetable of the Scottish Schools for the Future programme.
Official Report
Meeting date:
30 November 2023
Meeting of the Parliament 30 November 2023
This week, the health secretary has announced £42 million of funding for an extra 153 training places for doctors next year, which is the largest annual expansion on record, and he met the Royal College of Nursing to discuss our agenda for change and to hear about the issues that nurses face.
Official Report
Meeting date:
27 September 2023
Meeting of the Parliament 27 September 2023
We will, of course, very carefully consider all the issues that we should do in concluding what is the right balance between tax and the funding of public services, and making sure that we are able to sustain those public services.
Last updated:
16 November 2020
SPCB2020Paper_058 Annex
Agreements on disposal made with donors will also be taken into account. 15.3 When disposal of a Collection object is being considered, the SPCB will establish if it was acquired with the aid of an external funding organisation. In such cases, any conditions attached to the original grant will be followed.
Official Report
Meeting date:
27 June 2018
Meeting of the Parliament 27 June 2018
Glasgow developed the first practical ultrasound and the Glasgow coma scale, both of which were exported to the world.
Official Report
Meeting date:
23 September 2025
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee 23 September 2025
Their sole focus is grass-roots clubs and grass-roots football development. Therefore, although that funding is not direct funding for the SYFA, it goes directly into the youth game across the country.
Official Report
Meeting date:
29 November 2023
Meeting of the Parliament 29 November 2023
The minister mentioned the mental health strategy delivery and workforce plan, which is welcome. Can she say more about how the plan will help to ensure that we are meeting changing mental health needs across Scotland?
Official Report
Meeting date:
14 November 2017
Economy, Jobs and Fair Work Committee 14 November 2017
The Norwegians have a substantial fund on which they can draw to support Government-funded R and D.
Last updated:
14 May 2024
SPBill36BS062024
P ART 4 R ESPONSIBLE DEVELOPERS SCHEME 20 Power to establish scheme (1) The Scottish Ministers may by regulations establish a responsible developers scheme 40 (or more than one). 15 Housing (Cladding Remediation) (Scotland) Bill Part 4—Responsible developers scheme (2) The purpose of a responsible developers scheme is to secure that persons in the building industry address, or contribute towards the costs of addressing, risks to human life created or exacerbated (directly or indirectly) by the external wall cladding systems of buildings that are wholly or partly residential. 5 (3) Regulations establishing a scheme are to include provision about— (a) who is eligible to be a member of a responsible developers scheme, (b) the conditions of becoming, and remaining, a member, (c) loss of membership, (d) the consequences of a person who is eligible to be a member not being a member. 10 (4) Without prejudice to the generality of any other provision in this Part, regulations under 1 subsection (1) may in particular— (a) make provision about who is to operate a scheme (including by allowing a person to be appointed for that purpose in accordance with the regulations), (b) confer functions on persons, 15 (c) require members, or persons seeking to become members, of a scheme to pay fees, (d) make provision about the processes to be followed by the person operating a scheme (including in relation to decisions by the person about another person’s membership of the scheme), 20 (e) make different provision for different developers with regard to the size or other characteristics of a developer, (f) make provision— (i) requiring the Scottish Ministers to use their best endeavours to secure the outcome mentioned in subsection (4A), and 25 (ii) describing circumstances in which such a requirement is to be regarded as having been complied with. (4A) The outcome is that, in relation to any single-building assessment, additional work assessment or work identified in a single-building assessment report or an additional work assessment report as being needed to eliminate or mitigate risks to human life that 30 are (directly or indirectly) created or exacerbated by a building’s external wall cladding system arranged by a member of the scheme, the member uses the member’s best endeavours to ensure that the owners and occupiers of the building are— (a) informed that the assessment or work is to be carried out, and (b) given a reasonable opportunity to put questions about the assessment or work to 35 a person appointed for that purpose by the member. (5) Before making regulations under subsection (1), the Scottish Ministers must consult— (a) such persons as appear to the Scottish Ministers to represent the interests of persons carrying on, for business purposes, activities connected with the construction or other development of buildings which are wholly or partly residential, and 40 (b) such other persons, as the Scottish Ministers consider appropriate. 16 Housing (Cladding Remediation) (Scotland) Bill Part 4—Responsible developers scheme 21 Eligibility for membership (1) This section elaborates on the provision that is to be made by regulations in accordance with section 20(3)(a). (2) Regulations must make being eligible for membership of a scheme depend on a person— 5 (a) being a developer, and (b) having a connection to a building of a kind described by the regulations that has problematic cladding. (3) It is for the regulations to describe the kind of connection to a building that a developer must have in order to be eligible for membership of a scheme. 10 (4) The regulations may provide for a connection of an indirect kind to suffice. 1 (5) Subsection (2) is not exhaustive of the matters that regulations may specify as criteria for being eligible for membership of a scheme. (6) In this section— “developer” means a person carrying on, for business purposes, activities connected 15 with the construction or other development of buildings, “problematic cladding” means an external wall cladding system in relation to which a single-building assessment report states that— (a) (directly or indirectly) the cladding system creates or exacerbates a risk to human life, and 20 (b) work is needed to eliminate or mitigate that risk. 22 Conditions of membership (1) This section elaborates on the provision that is to be made by regulations in accordance with section 20(3)(b). (2) Conditions of becoming, and remaining, a member of a scheme may include conditions 25 relating to— (a) carrying out single-building assessments and additional work assessments and the carrying out of work identified as needed in a single-building assessment report, or an additional work assessment report, (b) making financial contributions towards meeting costs associated with carrying out 30 single-building assessments and additional work assessments and the carrying out of work identified as needed in a single-building assessment report, or an additional work assessment report, (c) the provision of information to the Scottish Ministers or any other person, (d) abiding by the terms of an agreement. 35 (3) Regulations must provide for a right of appeal to a court or tribunal against a decision of the person operating a scheme to refuse to allow another person to become a member of the scheme on the grounds that the person does not meet the conditions for becoming a member. 17 Housing (Cladding Remediation) (Scotland) Bill Part 4—Responsible developers scheme 23 Loss of membership (1) This section elaborates on the provision that is to be made by regulations in accordance with section 20(3)(c). (2) Regulations must enable a person who has become a member of a scheme to choose to 5 stop being a member. (3) Regulations must provide for a right of appeal to a court or tribunal against a decision of the person operating a scheme to stop another person’s membership of a scheme on the grounds that the person has not met the conditions for becoming or remaining a member. 10 24 Consequences of not being a member 1 (1) This section elaborates on the provision that is to be made by regulations in accordance with section 20(3)(d). (2) Regulations are to provide that the person operating a scheme is to publish a list of persons who are eligible to be members of the scheme but are not (“a prohibited 15 developers list”). (3) Regulations may, in relation to a person included on a prohibited developers list— (a) prohibit the person from carrying out— (i) any development, or (ii) development of a kind described in the regulations, 20 (b) prevent a building warrant from being granted, or amended, on an application by the person, (c) require a verifier to reject any completion certificate submitted by the person. (4) Regulations may modify any enactment for a purpose mentioned in subsection (3). (5) Regulations may, in particular, modify Part 6 (enforcement) of the Town and Country 25 Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 so that its provisions apply in relation to the carrying out of development in breach of a prohibition created by virtue of subsection (3)(a) as though doing so were a breach of planning control. (6) Regulations may create offences in connection with breaching a prohibition on carrying out development created by virtue of subsection (3)(a). 30 (7) The maximum penalties that may be provided for in respect of offences created by virtue of subsection (6) are— (a) on summary conviction, a fine not exceeding £50,000, (b) on conviction on indictment, a fine. (8) Regulations must provide for a right to appeal to a court against a decision to include 35 a person on a prohibited developers list. (9) In this section— (a) “development” has the meaning given by section 26 (meaning of “development”) of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997, 18 Housing (Cladding Remediation) (Scotland) Bill Part 4A—Progress reports (b) the following terms have the meanings given by section 56 (interpretation) of the Building (Scotland) Act 2003— (i) building warrant, (ii) completion certificate, 5 (iii) verifier.
Committee reports
Date published:
2 July 2019
Under Construction: Building the future of the sector in Scotland - Innovation
CCG felt that local authorities could do more to facilitate, rather than constrain, innovation.xvCCG, visit note
CCG also noted some resistance among local authorities to new ideas and materials. It has developed lightweight acrylic brick cladding that can be applied to the Kit System in the factory.
