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The summer recess should also be used to see how Covid develops. Thanks to the United Kingdom’s vaccine procurement and the tireless work of national health service staff and volunteers throughout the UK, more people are developing immunity each day.
It adds that the power will allow the Scottish Ministers to respond flexibly and at pace if the definition of charity requires to be amended to support the effective regulation of fostering services or to respond to future developments in the sector or in charity regulation.
That is how the measures would impact on the court service—and that, in turn, would require additional funding. Do you think that that funding is contained in what has been set out, particularly in the financial memorandum?
We believe that the amending regulations will provide the flexibility that is necessary to deal with exceptional cases without varying the totality of the funding that we provide.
What makes the recovery of the national health service far more difficult is the fact that we are receiving budget cuts from the Conservatives of £500 million over two years and of £1.3 billion in capital funding. Of course, we are investing in our NHS despite those cuts.
However, it makes no direct reference to sustainable development, and it is unlikely that any of its provisions will have a direct impact on sustainable development.
The Scottish Government previously funded a sustainable procurement training programme, which trained 220 procurement professionals before it was cancelled in 2016.
We are aware that the climate emergency skills plan has gone some way to addressing those concerns, and there are some promising initiatives, such as the green jobs skills hub, the green workforce academy and the green jobs fund.