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The plan sets out how investment in change and transformational activity during this period will enable the organisation to deliver significant capacity gains.
Finance and Sustainable Growth Before we come to questions, I echo what the Presiding Officer said earlier: in order to get as many people in as possible, we would prefer short and succinct questions, and answers to match.
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Committee reports
Date published:
19 December 2025
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Sarah Boyack MSP confirmed that her Bill aimed to support public bodies to embed wellbeing and sustainable development “as core considerations in decision making in order to get policy coherence”. Ms Boyack stated that “we need to have both legislative change and the commissioner in place to push that forward”, as:
Without a clear legal framew...
Committee reports
Date published:
10 December 2025
He argued that:
It is rare that one gets an opportunity to make such a meaningful and yet uncontroversial change to the law, and the opportunity is here right now.ivDelegated Powers and Law Reform Committee.
However, it suggested that other reforms “will lead to the UK version and the Scottish equivalents getting further and further apart, which is not necessarily a bad thing if it means that we start thinking of the Scottish budget in its own right rather than always thinking about it relative to the UK budget”.
Clackmannanshire Council stated that—
at a time of ever-diminishing resources, it is difficult to get others to come to the table if there is no requirement for them to do so.1The Official Report. (2025, June 4).
Committee reports
Date published:
30 September 2025
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Jatin Haria, Executive Director, CRER, recognised that fostering good relations is a hard concept however, argued that fostering good relations must go beyond events:
One reason that good relations are overlooked—I will be generous to public bodies— is that it is really hard to get a grip on how to foster good re...
Committee reports
Date published:
25 September 2025
The instrument also:
extends the period a carer continues to get support after the death of a cared for person from 8 to 12 weeks,
removes the requirement for carers to have been providing care for at least 14 or 22 of the past 26 weeks to become entitled to continue to be paid during a temporary break in care,
provides for the extension of eligibility for ...