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UK Sport also provides direct funding to select athletes, through the Athlete Performance Award which uses National Lottery income to support living and sporting costs.
There are instances where Scottish sport receives direct funding from the UK Government, including the ongoing investment from the UK DCMS as part of the UK Government's Levelling up Agenda....
Ageing, sport and physical activity in Scotland. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 5. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2023.1213924
Scotland’s older population (65+ year-olds as a proportion of the total population) is estimated to grow from 19.4% to 25.5% by 2045.
Scottish Government and Sportscotland Actions
The Scottish Government's Non-Binary Equality Action Plan outlines the actions that the Scottish Government will take to improve equality and bring about real, positive and lasting change to the lives of non-binary people in Scotland.1Scottish Government. (2023, November 16).
This is what a Holyrood Committee is asking and it now wants to hear from disabled people and those you care, support and live with..
Committee invites views on Disability Commissioner proposal.
The UK Government has been unable to confirm that an owner of an XL Bully dog who lives in England and Wales who comes to Scotland would be breaching English and Welsh law by selling their XL Bully dog in this manner.
Unemployment is forecast to rise to 1.6 million people (4.6% of the labour force) in the second quarter of 2025, around 85,000 people higher, and a year later, than expected in March.
Living standardsiAs measured by real household disposable income (RHDI) per person. are forecast to be 3% lower in 2024-25 than their pre-pandemic level.
Retrieved from <a href="https://www.parliament.scot/~/media/committ/7385" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.scot/~/media/committ/7385</a> sets out that the SPS pay scales were evaluated and benchmarked across the public sector and open market in 2023-24 following an increase in staff turnover and recruitment challenges, and notes that “the revised pay scales reflect fairness across the grades and cost of living...
The Committee visited One Parent Families Scotland in Glasgow for an informal discussion and held an online session with The Poverty Alliance, to hear first-hand the issues faced by those with lived experience of debt and mental health issues.
The second is the impact of inflation on public services and the cost-of-living crisis. Both these new themes provide additional complexity when considering the key issues which the Parliament continues to face during Session 6.