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The bill proposes quashing convictions, as happened in the Post Office (Horizon System) Offences (Scotland) Act 2024, but we do not think that that is the appropriate way to address the problem that is raised in the policy memorandum.
Although wildfire figures vary year to year, the upward trend is stark. Between 2024 and the first half of 2025, the number of recorded wildfires more than tripled, from 55 in all of 2024 to 187 in just the first six months of this year.
It was called the Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Act 2024. Yes, that act presented a few difficulties, because the people in question were convicted for a number of offences.
On culture, the last interministerial group meeting took place in May 2024 and since then, further meetings have been delayed repeatedly, so no discussion was possible, in the run-up to the summit, on the creative Europe programme and on the mobility of touring artists.
That is on top of the Scottish Government’s general revenue funding to local authorities. In 2024-25, 13 individual projects across the country were awarded PLIF funding.
The 2.6 million enhanced examinations between the date that payment reform came in and September 2024 is a sign that what is intended by that reform is starting to bed in in the system.
During the stage 1 debate, I expressed concern that having the new bill “will mean nothing if the devolved Government does not follow it up with actions.”—Official Report, 10 October 2024; c 88. The energy strategy is a prime example of that.
We should be pushed harder on how much progress we have made against the commitments that were made in 2007 rather than, in 2024, trying to come up with new shiny things that might distract from the original delivery.
Given the subsequent passing of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Act 2024, it would not be inappropriate for the Government to express why that matter has not been pursued.