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Date answered:
16 September 2021
One of the aims it sets out under the theme of strengthening culture focusses on working in partnership to increase diversity in the sector, sharing new approaches and codes of practice that ensure skills development and board membership have diversity at their core.
Clare Adamson: To ask the Scottish Government, regarding the impact of rising energy costs, whether it will provide an update on the support available through schemes for people who are not in receipt of qualifying benefits but are nevertheless struggling with energy bills.
We need to tread with a degree of caution on that. It must be a code of practice and no more. It should be about enabling farmers and crofters to take up practices that will suit the code of practice and the outcomes that we are trying to get to, rather than being overly prescriptive.
The language within the bill itself should be strengthened, and not left to a future code of practice. That is helpful. I think that those comments are fair enough.
Our sector is coming to us as the industry trade body to say, “We need better coding skills and we need fundamental computing science and software engineering skills so that we can invest in, harness and nurture young people once they are in the industry.”
It is worth reflecting that, in the code red report, which was published earlier this year, the warning from the IPCC is that we will be reaching 1.5° of warming within the next decade.