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It is estimated this will help boards across the country deliver around 12,000 additional inpatient and day-case procedures, over 40,000 extra diagnostic procedures and around 12,000 new outpatient appointments.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
14 November 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the Minister for Public Finance's reported statement on BBC Scotland's The Sunday Show on 3 November 2024 that the Barnett consequential funding from the recent UK Budget is actually worth an extra £300 million for the 2025-26 Scottish Budget, what calculations it made for the minister to arrive at this con...
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Date answered:
30 September 2024
The 2020 Programme for Government also committed an extra £150 million for flood risk management.Whitesands is one of the 31 flood protection schemes eligible to receive this funding, as long as the scheme remains viable. 15 such schemes have already been completed across Scotland, with a further 5 due to be completed in 2024.
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Date answered:
10 September 2024
We will use the information provided by this mapping exercise to develop plans to build on this provision in line with our commitment.In addition, we are delivering free or subsidised school age childcare through our Early Adopter Communities and Scottish Football Association ‘Extra Time’ projects, many of which include free breakfast club place...
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Date answered:
14 August 2023
We want to push coverage as far as possible via the three R100 contracts and, so far, Openreach have connected over 6,700 additional premises, over and above those contracted at no extra cost to the Scottish Government.
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Date answered:
28 April 2023
Transport Scotland are supporting more services to be commercially viable with extra funding for a marketing campaign from Scottish Government, to encourage people back to bus.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
12 April 2023
The Programme for Government published in 2020 included a commitment to invest an extra £150 million in flood risk management over 5 years in addition to the £42 million per annum.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
14 March 2023
The settlement includes £436.9 million for Aberdeen City Council to fund local services, which equates to an extra £27.1 million to support vital day to day services or an additional 6.6 per cent compared to 2022-23.
We are investing now in additional support for breaks. We have allocated an extra £5 million for short breaks in the 2022-23 budget, on top of the annual £3 million voluntary sector Short Breaks Fund.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
21 March 2022
The cost of living package also included extra funding for the Fuel Insecurity Fund which is distributed through third sector organisations who are partnered with referral organisations.