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Government planning officials, through their routine planning liaison responsibilities, received in early December, the agenda for the Cairngorms National Park Authority''s meeting on 14 December.
That means that prevention, early warning and rapid, well-coordinated incident response arrangements are just as important as detection and prosecution.
We asked why those things were happening and were told that, post-Covid, there was rapid inflation in bills for travel, hotels and meals and that the existing process for expenses was straining at the seams.
There are also effective measures that are working really well, including through the rapid rehousing transition plan, housing first—which has already been mentioned—housing options and local poverty mitigation plans.
We have the opportunity to lead the way not only in the UK but across the world, but we are letting this moment pass us at a rapid pace. The reality is that, in Scotland, we have fallen behind other UK nations in our HIV response.
We are going to be decarbonising the grid at a rapid rate. Do we want to use all of that to produce green hydrogen or do we want to use it to produce the electricity that is going to run electric vehicles and be used for heat pumps?
My next question is for Alison Watson. In your estimation, will our rapid rehousing transition plan and ending homelessness together action plan, along with the £20 million to tackle the shortage of accommodation for the Travelling community, get us where we need to be?
Patricia Ferguson lodged another amendment at stage 2, which provides statutory underpinning for the family liaison charter that the Solicitor General for Scotland promised during evidence at stage 1.