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In September 2025, the Scottish Government announced funding to support a company-run furlough scheme to support the company's retention of Scottish-based jobs and manufacturing, pending receipt of orders.
Scottish Renewables played an active role in the development of the Climate Emergency Skills Action Plan (CESAP) which explores issues such as skills development and staff retention in many industries including Energy.
A key priority in any future development of the fund, certainly from the community’s point of view, is for funding to be available over periods of at least three years, in order for learning to be identified and changes to be embedded.
The Government will be looking at the new common agricultural policy and whether there is some flexibility in it to fund some of the work that is needed if we are moving towards building a better food nation.
There is definitely an appetite in the sector to have that understanding and to develop things to be better. The most important thing when it comes to funding is that short-term funding can seem tokenistic if there is no understanding that long-term change is needed.
Funding will be made available, with applications prioritised against risk. ➢ I have set a deadline of 31 October 2025 for developers to sign the Developer Remediation Contract, which will hold developers formally accountable to fully fund and deliver remediation on the buildings they are responsible for.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
11 November 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how much funding was awarded for chronic pain services in (a) 2018-19 and (b) 2019-20, and how much will be awarded in 2020-21, broken down by NHS board.