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Firstly, one of the key challenges of the energy transition is balancing the increase in intermittent renewable energy technologies (e.g. wind, solar, wave), fed into local and national grids.
Written Questions lodged on 4 March 2026 S6W-43883 Mercedes Villalba: To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it gave to the security of employment of the workers at WaveEnergyScotland as part of its decision to not allocate the organisation funding in its draft Budget 2026-27.
The provisions also support, in part, continued alignment with aspects of the EU Renewable Energy Directive 2018. Scottish Ministers, special advisers and the Permanent Secretary are covered by the terms of the Lobbying (Scotland) Act 2016.
As a result, the SFC expects resource funding for 2023-24 to increase by £1.7 billion in nominal terms but only £279 million in real terms compared to the latest funding position for 2022-23.4 Resource funding makes up the majority of the Scottish Budget and is used to fund public services, goods and services, and social security payments.
SRUC meets regularly with the Scottish Funding Council, the Scottish Qualifications Agency, Skills Development Scotland, as Scottish Government agencies.
Hamish Trench expanded that:
we have seen over the past couple of years a shift where corporates and financial institutions are less interested in buying land directly in Scotland for those purposes. Of course, to invest, they do not need to acquire and own land.
The published LHEES provide an evidence base for what interventions are needed to decarbonise Scotland’s buildings and tackle poor energy efficiency as a driver of fuel poverty, as well as importantly, where these buildings are located.