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I value you and the compassion that you provide to our young people every day. The extra hours, the extra care and the extra mile that you go for our children make a difference, and we are lucky as a country to have you.
I am interested in the strong commitment that the Scottish Government gave on extra medical places five years ago. It said that, in the intervening five-year period, we would have those extra 190 places in medical schools.
Additional funding has also been made available to enable carer centres to provide support remotely during the pandemic and an extra £750,000 has been invested in the ‘Time to Live scheme to allow for carers to take short breaks away from caring, usually virtually.
For key service sectors, access to EU markets will be reduced compared to EU membership
extra costs could make Scottish businesses uncompetitive in some markets: manufacturing, food and drink, agriculture and forestry are particularly at risk
lamb and beef exports will be hard hit by the extra costs of exporting to t...
Corrected text— As a consequence of our decisions and the local government order that will follow, that local authority will have an extra £3.4 million to spend, so it can look again at those decisions.
We therefore recommend that any successor committee considers issues related to aspects of homelessness, violence against women and girls, and the extra costs of having a disability, which the Committee commissioned research on earlier this session, as possible topics.
Committee reports
Date published:
24 February 2026
More recently, the funicular closed in May 2025 for annual maintenance. During this period some extra remedial work was carried out in addition to annual maintenance.
These changes highlighted inconsistencies in legislation between Scotland and the rest of the UK, particularly when a body is repatriated to Scotland from elsewhere in the UK.
Currently, Scotland requires extra authorisation for cremation if the death occurred outside its borders, even within the UK.