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Mark agreed with Ben, noting that while some critics argue that international processes like COP are ineffective, they are still the best approach to tackling climate issues.
The Scottish Ministers’ ambitions for the railways seek to deliver safe, accessible, reliable, affordable and efficient services, which are best delivered through full public ownership.
Clare thanked Liz Lumsden for her phenomenal work as the secretariat for the CPG and added that Liz’s work has ensured this is one of the best and most recognised CPG by Parliament.
As mentioned in paragraph 7 above, the Member is cognisant of the fact that the Scottish Ministers are best placed to know how health services are delivered in practice and how the various bodies listed in subsection (3) work together.
Sometimes professionals use this to their advantage and children often agree to things which are in the best interests of the service/school, not the child.
We believe that a single regulator, responsible for the whole system of regulation, complaints and redress, and independent of those it regulates, working across the whole legal services market, remains the best way to achieve this. We supported the Roberton Review’s recommendation to create an independent regulator.
Asked whether the Committee could have faith in the figures for a period of five years when the sums in the FM do not reflect the reductions in funding to the sector set out in the Scottish Budget 2024-25, Scottish Government officials explained that the figures in the FM were based on the “best information available to officials at the time”.
Delivering Record Social Security Investment in Scotland to Tackle the Cost of Living Crisis and Inequality: The Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice (Shirley-Anne Somerville) moved S6M-12079—That the Parliament believes that social security plays a vital role in tackling poverty and reducing economic and social inequalities, and that the Scottish social security system must have dignity, fairness and respect at its heart; welcomes the Scottish Government's record investment of £6.3 billion in social security expenditure in 2024-25 and that the Scottish Fiscal Commission has forecast that this is an investment of £1.1 billion more than the funding received from the UK Government through the social security block grant; notes that this investment includes the Best...
Thus, qualifications and assessment matter to individuals, communities and wider Scottish society. Every learner deserves the best possible life chance and qualifications and assessment have a key role to play in making that a reality” - Professor Louise Hayward, University of Glasgow 3.
The Government has concluded that the hybrid approach is the best way to complete A9 Dualling. This approach entails, progressing the three remaining A9 Dualling South projects (Pass of Birnam to Tay Crossing, Tay Crossing to Balinluig and Pitlochry to Killiecrankie) as capital funded design and build contracts.