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Official Report
Meeting date:
29 March 2022
Finance and Public Administration Committee 29 March 2022
For example, are organisations thinking about their active travel policy, so that when staff come back to the office, they are being encouraged to come to work in an active manner, rather than drive?
Last updated:
17 December 2025
PE2198_B
Resource Constraints Cannot Justify Democratic Inaction The Government notes that creating a national oversight body was “paused due to lack of capacity.”
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 April 2023
S6W-17421
Officials have been working across government portfolios to understand, in detail, the causes and drivers of economic inactivity in Scotland. Addressing the challenges around inactivity are complex and although there have been improvements in the rate in recent months we are focussed on rising to those challenges.
Official Report
Meeting date:
14 June 2023
Meeting of the Parliament 14 June 2023
If that is what I get and what Carol Mochan gets, it is what every single MSP will be getting, yet the Government comes to the chamber and dismisses those concerns.
Official Report
Meeting date:
15 November 2023
Economy and Fair Work Committee 15 November 2023
It is interesting. If you follow the money, you get a flavour of what needs to be done to drive activity.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
21 July 2025
S6W-38808
This was an estimated 20.5% of people aged 16 to 64 in Scotland.Table 1: Unemployed and economically inactive people aged 16 to 64 (excluding those who gave their reason for inactivity as student) by Sex, Scotland, April 2024 to March 2025SexNumber of unemployed people aged 16 to 64Number of economically inactive people aged 16 to 64 excluding StudentsTotal number of unemployed and economically inactive people aged 16 to 64Proportion of 16 to 64 year oldsPeople89,500621,300710,70020.5%Men52,800252,000304,90018.0%Women36,600369,300405,90022.9%Source: ONS Annual Population SurveyNotes:1.Numbers rounded to the nearest hundred.2.Proportions calculated on unrounded estimates.3.Reasons for being inactive include looking after family and/or home, temporary or long-term sick, being retired, or other reasons.The ONS state there are concerns with the quality of the APS estimates for smaller groups of the population and geographies below the Scotland level.
Official Report
Meeting date:
12 January 2021
Health and Sport Committee 12 January 2021
It will be difficult for some people to get back to the sport or activity that they used to do, because of the long gap.
Official Report
Meeting date:
19 November 2024
Finance and Public Administration Committee 19 November 2024
These days, a pair of boots, a decent cagoule and so on are very expensive—it costs a good few hundred pounds to get a child kitted out to do such activities—and the fact that centres are now providing that equipment is a big step forward.
Official Report
Meeting date:
24 February 2022
Meeting of the Parliament (Hybrid) 24 February 2022 [Draft]
When we do, we often face the accusation that we are interfering. We continue to try to get that balance right in the interests of the people we serve.
Official Report
Meeting date:
12 December 2023
Finance and Public Administration Committee 12 December 2023
Those are the UK’s two key labour market challenges. First, we need a strategy for getting people who are out of work and are economically inactive into work.
