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The Committee wrote to the UK Government on 12 July 2022 regarding the scrutiny of delegated powers in UK Parliament bills conferred on UK Ministers in devolved areas and the application or otherwise of SI Protocol 2.
The idea that people have to go to Aberdeen, Edinburgh or Glasgow to be educated is dated. It is important that people can earn and learn where they live, because they are much more likely to stay in the area if they do not go away to train.
If there was a plan and policy in place to say that, by X date, we should have X per cent of women’s sport being broadcast and it should be diversified across certain categories, that would be a positive step, and at least we would all know that we were working towards something.
The backlog is one problem and the delay is another, but so are some of the issues that Tony Lenehan talked about, such as uncertainty, adjournments and trial dates moving. People think that they are going to court to give their evidence or giving it remotely, and then the rug gets pulled out from under them and the trial is not going ahead on that day.
Despite this, the Scottish Government has not seen a fully strategic approach to planning for heat networks to date, and this has led to a patchwork of different approaches and methodologies which are not standardised across Scotland.
We did that because the Government had said previously that that was what it did and why it did not bank the overperformance from the first carbon budget to the second.