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The Committee also requests information on any consideration the Scottish Government has made to date as to the budgetary impact of increasing carer benefits.
The Explanatory Notes state:
The Bill provides for a right for anyone diagnosed as having a drug and/or alcohol addiction to receive a treatment determination and for the person to be provided with that treatment as soon as reasonably practicable and no later than three weeks from the date of the determination.
The Bill provides that the Scottish Ministers ...
Committee reports
Date published:
1 September 2019
The system is not yet working efficiently as planned and will require significant additional investment. To date, the programme has not delivered value for money.1Audit Scotland.
We note that discussions are ongoing between the Scottish Government and Relationships Scotland about future funding arrangements. However, we also note that, to date, there have been no announcements on the outcome of these discussions prior to the Parliament's Stage 1 consideration of the Bill.
They have played a part in human history for several millennia, with a life-size carving of a salmon found in a cave beside a river in the Dordogne region of France, dated to 25,000 years ago12Musée National de Préhistoire.
In general, however, public bodies should embrace the sharing of services and I hope that they will do that more than they have done to date.”4Stephen Boyle, Auditor General for Scotland. (2025, March 13).
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backdating the change introduced in 2006, so that all unmarried fathers who had jointly registered a birth pre 2006 could, from a date...
As West Lothian Council very recently introduced charging and has closely monitored the impact of this decision, Councillor Dodds was able to provide the Committee with the most up-to-date statistics:
Since we introduced charging, the number of primary students in tuition has decreased from 1,128 last November to 234 this year...
Delivery focussed plans: Plans should include deliverable targets, assign responsible organisations/officers to each policy or proposal and include monitoring arrangements and review dates. This is essential to ensure continual progress is made.
Learning lessons and next steps
The Committee considered what lessons can be learned from the operation of growth deals to date to inform what comes next. Many of these lessons have been set out in this report.