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During evidence, the Minister was asked to provide more information on the following:
that the Committee had received evidence from some Scottish businesses that they do not support a delay to the tone date;
the economic assessment that has been carried out to date; and
the difference between a tone date of 2021 and a tone date of 2022.
R S6W-03697 Mark Griffin: To ask the Scottish Government how many affordable housing supply programme approvals that had an estimated completion date at tender stage now have a revised completion date in (a) 2020-21 and (b) 2021-22.
R S6W-03697 Mark Griffin: To ask the Scottish Government how many affordable housing supply programme approvals that had an estimated completion date at tender stage now have a revised completion date in (a) 2020-21 and (b) 2021-22.
That is achieved by making an application in line with section 29(7). Section 29(8) pins the date that that change occurs to the start date of an accounting period.
Correspondence included an email from Prof Jay to officials, dated 26 September stating: “I have expressed no views on Mr Kerr’s amendment, but I am of the opinion that the Scottish Government should urgently take steps to establish reliable data about the nature and extent of child sexual exploitation by organised networks, of which so-called ‘grooming gan...
The summary below set out the progress the Scottish Government has made across the four sections of the Action Plan to date. As an annex to this letter, I have included a summary of the detailed actions included in the plan together with information on progress achieved.
Gabrielle King spoke of the “HIV confident charter , which supports organisations to have an accreditation that shows they have an up to date understanding of HIV and can work to support people” 102.
Taken together all the evidence to date shows that while the Scottish Government’s aims to increase the numbers of parents receiving employment support is right and will be vital to achieving Scotland’s child poverty targets, at the current rates of progress; scale of service delivery; and investment, they are highly unlikely to be met.