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As Andy Wightman’s motion points out, there are targets for registering land—the dates are 2019 for public land and 2024 for land that is in private ownership.
We are expecting Registers of Scotland to do rather a lot at the moment, because creating a land register by 2024 is a major target. Are we overloading it?
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19 December 2025
For example, the police attended over 185,000 mental health-related incidents where no crime was recorded in 2024/25, which amounts to the equivalent of 419 full-time officers diverted from core policing duties.
While some Local Authorities proceeded immediately with two offers of accommodation and issued 60-day notices as early as March 2024, others were more cautious. Local Authorities that proceeded more swiftly with the issuing of 60-day notices reflected on their in-depth knowledge of guests still in Welcome Accommodation by 2024; stating that they believed guests with 60-day notices were unlikely to remain in Scotland once the offer of Welcome Accommodation had been withdrawn.
Annexe A: Michael Matheson MSP's representations to the Committee - 15 April 2024
I am grateful to the committee for providing the opportunity to make a written submission.
The UK Government agreed on 9 December 2022 to Scottish and Welsh Government proposals to extend the transitional staging period to 31 January 2024. On this basis the transitional staging period is being extended until 31 January 2024, in alignment with legislation that will be made by the other administrations in Gr...
We see, for example, that CAP payments are going to roll forward to 2020. Mr Gove made a commitment to 2024, but I do not know whether that agreement has stuck or whether there is any Treasury backing for it.
A lot has been said about vision and longer-term objectives and so on, but that has not yet translated into thinking “If we start at point A in 2018 or 2017, how do we get ourselves to point B by 2021 or to point C by 2024?”. That is the thinking that really has to happen now, otherwise we will be left behind.