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The committee will present back to the Government the findings of our pre-budget scrutiny, so you have an opportunity to make an ask of the Government.
I am on the train every week, and I see marginally more people coming on each week, but it is not clear whether levels of patronage are going to go back to what we saw pre-Covid, when the trains were completely packed.
Consultation on exempt groups
A successful Scottish Government amendment introduced a requirement to consult on which categories of people would be exempt. Without pre-empting that consultation, the Cabinet Secretary suggested that this might include people whose benefit had recently been reviewed.
These included:
Purpose of the keeping pace power
Regulations that authorise any Scottish public authority to delegate functions
Pre-laying scrutiny of regulations - a sifting mechanism
More details on each of these amendments is provided below.
That leaves 40 per cent who are not pre-matched, so the question is how we convince that 40 per cent and their parents that the built-environment sector is good for them.