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Kezia Dugdale has a cheek to talk about funding in our health service when she authored a manifesto that promised the lowest funding increase to the health service of any party that contested the election.
Jeremy Balfour: To ask the Scottish Government how much has been allocated in its draft Budget 2026-27 to replace the Investing Communities Fund when the current funding ends in March 2026.
Alasdair Allan asked about the difference between Gaelic and Welsh, and what this means practically. Ealasaid referred to the funding mechanism – to be inside the licence funding settlement.
In the rest of the UK and other countries of a larger scale, private sector funding comes in and trusts and foundations help to fund that independent activity.
There are 2 unpublished Common Frameworks that are ready for ministerial sign off, to be provisionally published and scrutinised by each legislature, and one Framework is at an earlier stage of development. We are currently working with the devolved governments to develop a reporting mechanism to all four legislature...
It was agreed that best practice guidance would be produced based on this experience to support committees in planning future cross-committee working. 4. Net zero and sustainable development Session 6 strategic priority for CG: approach to scrutiny: The Group discussed a proposed package of support designed to help strengthen the scrutiny of NetZero and sustainable development.