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She is likely to say something in March, too. I have some concern. Some of that investment will be longer term, because starting to build new housing has a lead-in time.
—Official Report, Finance and Public Administration Committee, 8 March 2022; c 5. However, you are here again, more than two years later, making the point about the gap around our more generous programmes and our lack of understanding of it.
The rent caps were in existence until the end of March 2024. It was 3 per cent. Well, there was a rent freeze and then increases were capped at 3 per cent.
We have the REC Committee report from last session, the Audit Scotland report from March of last year, the pending Public Audit Committee report, and project Neptune, on which I provided an update to Parliament back in September.
That is now being done on an industrial scale across the UK. In March 2020, we were talking about 2,500 people being placed in such institutional accommodation; the figure is now 45,000 people, which is an increase of 1,400 per cent over that period.
We have taken exceptional steps to support Scotland through the cost crisis and, by the end of March 2023, we will have invested about £3 billion in a range of measures to support households.
In closing, I mention the Dundee drugs commission, which published its two-year review report on 2 March. Three months on, there has been no response from the partner agencies that are involved, of which the report is particularly critical.
The proposed rule change also retains the provision that currently allows a Member’s Bill, exceptionally and with the consent of the Parliamentary Bureau, to be introduced up to the last sitting day in March in the year preceding a general election.
The Committee heard from the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Gaelic in March 2025 and will write to the Scottish Government with its findings in late May 2025.