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There must be consideration of the flexibility that is needed. The £25 million just transition fund is modest in comparison with the funds that the National Wealth Fund has at its disposal.
Significant gaps in the data at that time included a lack of accurate cost and spend data on funded ELC; incomplete data on staff providing funded ELC; and a lack of data on the number of hours of funded ELC children received.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
20 December 2021
We have also made available the National Wellbeing Hub, a 24/7 National Wellbeing Helpline, confidential mental health treatment through the Workforce Specialist Service, and funding for additional local psychological support.
If the Scottish Government is going to take the measures forward, can the minister assure us that compulsory sales will be a last resort and that a sale will be permitted only to buyers who have a fully developed and funded plan for land use?
Committee reports
Date published:
15 November 2020
The £2.35 million for the parental employability support fund will make a difference.vEqualities and Human Rights Committee, 24 September 2020, Official Report, Col 14.
Committee reports
Date published:
13 November 2020
To be honest, I am not sure what that means.vEEFW Committee meeting, 11 August 2020, col 12
Giving evidence in August, Liz Cameron of the SCC agreed that there is a case to be made for looking closely at local support mechanisms and customising support into specific areas:
There is funding within city deals, and there is also funding in some of the other UK and Scottish Government town deals and urban deals.
The advancing manufacturing challenge fund utilised European funding to draw in £15.8 million of public funding for 12 projects across Scotland, and our £26 million low-carbon manufacturing challenge fund will invite bids that encourage innovative development of low-carbon technologies or processes.