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Date answered:
1 December 2025
S6W-42072
The Scottish Government does not hold information on the number of staff currently employed in local authority planning services, nor in other sectors.Research commissioned by Skills Development Scotland, published in 2021, estimated that there were approximately 1600 people employed in the planning profession in Scotland and that over the next 10-15 years the planning sector would have demand for an additional 700 entrants into the sector.More recently, the National Planning Improvement Champion has undertaken a workforce and capacity study and published the findings at: National Planning Improvement Workforce and Capacity Report Scotland.
Last updated:
4 December 2025
ASL PAC to ECYP Committee 4 December 2025
From our evidence, it appears the funding mechanism is a complex picture, with many different funding channels but no complete picture or understanding of how each channel is used or precision on how councils can or cannot vary their approaches.
Last updated:
4 September 2023
Minutes of the meeting held on 21 April 2023
MB: Within the health service, we have quite a lot of things in the hospitals and community settings from when money was relatively abundant. So if you have to make a fundings decision between coronary reperfusion vs stroke, you would pick stroke based on getting more bang for your buck but at the moment we have a really well developed PCI centers across the country so therefore they maintain the funding.
Official Report
Meeting date:
11 January 2018
Meeting of the Parliament 11 January 2018
Developing the Young Workforce Good afternoon.
Last updated:
28 January 2025
Chamber_Minutes_20250128
Investing in Public Services Through the Scottish Budget: The Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care (Neil Gray) moved S6M-16237—That the Parliament welcomes the investment in Scotland's public services through the draft Scottish Budget 2025-26; notes that £21.7 billion for health and social care investment and over £15 billion in funding for local authorities is being provided; calls on the UK Government to fully fund the additional cost of its increase in employer national insurance contributions, noting the significant impacts on public services, including social care, if it does not fund it in full; notes the importance of the public service reform programme to drive future financial sustainability, and celebrates the key role that the Scottish public service workforce plays in delivering these services across Scotland.
Official Report
Meeting date:
31 May 2023
Meeting of the Parliament 31 May 2023
Stephanie Callaghan makes an important point about the impact that Brexit has had on workforces in Scotland. The Scottish Parliament approved legislation that came into force on 8 March 2023, which provides the General Dental Council with flexibility regarding international registration.
Last updated:
6 November 2024
CPG Music minutes 241009
SG won’t have final figures until February, which makes committing funds difficult. Multi-year funding in 4 all sectors from Westminster used to be a feature but stopped in 2008.
Official Report
Meeting date:
21 November 2024
Meeting of the Parliament 21 November 2024
We are investing £88.4 million a year in local carer support through local authority Carers (Scotland) Act 2016 funding. We are providing £8 million a year for voluntary sector short breaks—that funding was increased by £5 million in 2023—including £3.5 million via local carer centres.
Official Report
Meeting date:
20 May 2025
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee 20 May 2025 [Draft]
We also have to consider that those funds must be reinvested into the care homes, the capital infrastructure and training and development for staff.
Last updated:
31 March 2025
SET Minute 24 March 2025
Action: Lynsey Item 7: Strategic Workforce Planning 12. SET held a further strategic discussion on workforce planning.
