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After this meeting, I will be going to the Accounts Commission to brief it on the integration joint board 2024 report that we will publish later this year on behalf of the Accounts Commission, which will be a summary of the financial health and performance of the 30 IJBs in Scotland.
—Official Report, Rural Affairs and Islands Committee, 31 January 2024; c 11, 12. The UK Government was able to provide clarity on its vision for agriculture back in 2020, in the bill that became the UK Agriculture Act 2020.
Committee members will be aware that, in the 2023-24 programme for government, ministers committed to an uplift, from April 2024, to £12 an hour for those in the private, voluntary and independent sector workforce who deliver funded ELC.
In phase 2, which will run from the second half of this year into the beginning of 2024, we will set out the actions for delivering on the vision developed in 2023, with the aim of publishing in spring 2024.
The headline is that the hope for any significant drop in the price cap in 2023 or 2024 is fading. Cornwall Insight does not expect wholesale energy prices to drop any time soon, and that is the main driver.
In a budget of £60 billion, that is a drop in the ocean. Since July 2024, the Scottish Government has received an additional £10.3 billion from the UK Labour Government.