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Response: We are providing £552 million of resource funding to local authorities in 2022-23 to support the delivery of 1140 hours of funded early learning and childcare.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
24 January 2023
The review of the suite of Supporting the Work-Life Balance Policies that include flexible working arrangements and the Homeworking Policy (now known as the NHSScotland Flexible Work Location Policy) is currently at an advanced stage.
The retail sector is not just important to Scotland’s economy, it is important to our high streets in our towns, cities and local communities, and with nearly 10% of Scotland’s overall workforce working in retail, it offers many people successful and flexible careers.
Research and developmentfunds
The aim of R&D funds is to link creative practitioners, intermediaries, technology partners, and universities together to develop innovations.
Councils have seen a real terms reduction in core funding. The Local Government Settlement is once again extremely challenging for 2022/23 demonstrating a £251m real terms cut in core funding.
Affordable housing units completed with funding from the AHSP count towards the Scottish Government's target to deliver 50,000 affordable homes over five years from April 2016 to 31 March 2021.
The provision of this as unrestricted funding was seen to be particularly helpful, with the organisations benefitting from the emergency funding being more flexible, less outcomes-focused, and placing trust in them to deliver.