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The Committee acknowledges that the Scottish Government is considering how the Low Emission Support Fund might help support users of light good vehicles and that bus retrofit funding is already available.
The plan is about building capacity and capability of AMS, HP (with relevance to IPC) and IPC workforce in all health and care settings, to enable recovery and development.
There were concerns that most of the agency’s budget will go on agency running costs, thus diverting funds “away from delivery areas which could more directly benefit the economy.”
Response: It is considered appropriate for the powers to be exercisable by the Secretary of State because the policy intention is to maintain a single, UK-wide decision-making structure that ensures consistency and flexibility across the rapidly developing technology testing sector.
As set out above, any targets would require further work to be undertaken to develop the appropriate monitoring and indicator framework on which they would be based.
Reform and pre-pandemic workforce levels
The Scottish Government has also said it wants to "return the public sector workforce broadly to pre-Covid-19 levels".
Underpinning those calculations is detailed work, which uses projections for Scotland’s population and economic growth to develop our assessment of Scottish Government spending and funding.