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We believe there is sufficient flexibility within the HM Treasury Statement of Funding Policy to take an approach to the allocation of this funding which does not use the Barnett formula, and which reflects the importance of the fishing sector for Scotland.
Spending on the Cladding Remediation Programme is now expected to increase exponentially as Government-funded assessments are taken forward and then as Government-funded mitigation and remediation works are designed and implemented.
Assessment systems reflect the culture in which they develop. Often, as is the case in Scotland, those developments go back to the 19th century, so there is a long tradition.
In terms of Screen Scotland, an unplanned for 22% reduction in funding from the Scottish Government in 2022/23 has impacted skills development, business development and production attraction.
For children in their earliest years, we have tried to redress the imbalance that we see in that workforce through funding the men in childcare initiative.
Those developments have been accompanied by a significant increase in funding in the past two years, after a period of reduced funding and no real-terms increase.