This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
Whilst regulation of internet services is reserved to the UK Government, we will consider the impacts of online hate crime, recognising the need to continuously improve and adapt to align with changes online.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
25 September 2023
The Scottish Government’s Parent Club website also offers advice for parents on how to protect their children from online harms. We are currently reviewing the content of the Hub to include advice for parents and carers on sexual extortion as well as other emerging risks for children online.
Historic Environment Scotland provides access to extensive digital resources, which range from curated online exhibitions to interactive online maps that show archaeological and historical sites, as well as modern and past land use across the country.
Early Learning and Childcare Funding (Online Accounts) (PE1970) PE1970, which was lodged by Sharon Fairley on behalf of the Scottish Private Nurseries Association, is on the creation of an online account for parents to manage the 1,140 hours of early learning and childcare funding.
We called for the introduction of a specific veterans help-to-buy scheme, to give veterans and their families more support when buying a home in Scotland.
As chance had it, it started just as Covid kicked in, but we moved everything online during lockdown—as we did with our own programmes—and we got a huge response.
Looking at the change in the mass of exports between 2019/20 and 2023/24, overall for all beverage exports the mass fell by 3% with the EU exports seeing a fall of 7% and non-EU exports seeing an increase of 1%.
The USA is the the most valuable export market, worth £1bn in 2023/24, although there has been a fall of 1% from 2019/20, this is a 17% fall in rea...
The report points out that, while EU legislation requires the presence of GM ingredients to be labelled, if over 1% of the relevant material, the USA has no such labelling requirement.
This also comes across from the evaluation PACT has done of recent committee community participation in Holyrood, online and in person in communities. Annex B summarises the committee public engagement that PACT supported in 2022/23, including the number of people who took part in communities, online and in the SP bu...