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Official Report
Meeting date:
10 January 2024
Meeting of the Parliament 10 January 2024
It is also important to recognise that, in its pre-budget scrutiny report at the end of last year, the Criminal Justice Committee said that the police and fire services “should explore the provision of newer co-located premises which offer improved facilities for officers, firefighters and staff”.Police Officer Numbers (South Scotland) Police Officer Numb...
Official Report
Meeting date:
29 November 2023
Meeting of the Parliament 29 November 2023
A budget of £1.8 million has been set aside and the scheme will be open for applications shortly, offering up to £30,000 per individual farm business to reinstate flood banks to their pre-damage levels. At a recent meeting of the Fife branch of NFU Scotland, the issue of adverse impacts of recent flooding on food security was raised.
Official Report
Meeting date:
21 November 2023
Meeting of the Parliament 21 November 2023
In doing so, I will be reflecting on the feedback from committees following their pre-budget scrutiny process. When I presented the medium-term financial strategy to Parliament in May, I laid out the scale of the challenge that we face.
Official Report
Meeting date:
14 November 2023
Meeting of the Parliament 14 November 2023
I suspect that that is largely a consequence of international migrants going to places where they already have cultural, family, language or other links and, therefore, gravitating towards pre-existing communities. I ask the Scottish Government to do some analysis of that in order to understand not just what the data shows but what we can do to address that...
Official Report
Meeting date:
1 November 2023
Meeting of the Parliament 01 November 2023
There is prevention—I will speak about that later—and preparation with pre-warning. Much has improved these days, with local detail forecasts through the Met Office, which enable preparations such as providing places where people can access sandbags, opening rest centres or simply putting staff on standby in readiness to respond.
Official Report
Meeting date:
19 September 2023
Meeting of the Parliament 19 September 2023
During the Finance and Public Administration Committee’s recent visit to Largs for an evidence-gathering session as part of our pre-budget scrutiny, I chaired a group of community activists, and they were apoplectic at the very thought of paying more council tax at this time.
Official Report
Meeting date:
13 June 2023
Meeting of the Parliament 13 June 2023
The 2021-22 student satisfaction and engagement survey statistics showed that nine out of 10 full-time students were satisfied with their college experience, which is an increase on the figures for the previous year and a return to pre-pandemic levels. That speaks to the quality of the support that is being given to students.
Official Report
Meeting date:
22 November 2022
Meeting of the Parliament 22 November 2022
The latest fisheries statistics show that Scotland’s sea fish and shellfish industry recovered in 2021 from the Covid-19 pandemic, but had not yet returned to pre-Brexit levels. Last month, I said: “This comprehensive and long-term plan has been put together with the voice of the local fishing industry at its heart.”
Official Report
Meeting date:
8 November 2022
Meeting of the Parliament 08 November 2022
We have consulted on some of those proposals in our bill consultation. Obviously, I will not pre-empt the results of that consultation.
Official Report
Meeting date:
27 September 2022
Meeting of the Parliament 27 September 2022
We should not pretend that that did not happen, and I agree with other members that it accentuated a pre-existing problem. There are many ways to address Scotland’s particular economic and social needs, but it is a critical part of the overall solution that UK immigration policy should be flexible enough to cater for the specific needs of nations and regio...
