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Some of the work to phase in the national board will begin in 2024-25. We have built in £0.5 million for 2024-25, going up to £1.4 million in 2025-26 as we finalise it, with a view to going live in 2026-27.
We are progressing with development of the budget for 2024-25 and the capital review. This week, the executive team had a discussion about development of the capital programme.
As we all know, the Scottish Government is working on a bespoke system of agricultural support from 2024. Has the Covid-19 emergency affected how the NFU wants the new system of support to be established and implemented?
In August last year, we published our new “Child Wellbeing and Protection Strategy 2019 to 2024: Getting it Right for Every Child in Scottish Football”, which takes its lead directly from the Scottish Government’s framework for supporting children and young people.
The group is considering the situation after 2024, which is difficult in the current situation but, if we can get an agreement and take the politics out of it, that would be a big boost to the future of agricultural support in Scotland.
The Scottish Government’s plan for the rural funding transition, “Stability and Simplicity: proposals for a rural funding transition period”, runs to 2024, and I feel that the amendment’s provisions fit well with it.
However, if we aggregate the figure for savings to the UK Exchequer by the year 2024-25, for which we do have numbers, we can see that almost £1.1 billion will have been taken out of pensioner households by that time.
We have already set out a vision whereby we can have a period of stability and simplicity over five years—not to 2022, but starting from 2019 and running beyond that, to 2024. We have set out our vision in what we believe is the most detailed plan in the UK for proposals on how we will move on from the CAP.
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