Found: generally speaking the SCCs have to be used for transfers to anywhere else, creating a papering exercise

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of recent Israeli military activity in the West Bank.

Answered by Hamish Falconer - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

The UK is concerned by the Israel Defense Forces' (IDF) ongoing military operation in the occupied West Bank and attacks by Palestinian militants. We recognise Israel's need to defend itself against security threats, but we are worried by the methods Israel has employed and by reports of civilian casualties and the destruction of civilian infrastructure. The risk of instability is serious and the need for de-escalation urgent. As our statement on 30 August made clear, we continue to call on the Israeli authorities to exercise restraint, adhere to international law, and clamp down on the actions of those who seek to inflame tensions.

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent representations he has made to his Israeli counterpart on (a) escalating violence, (b) compliance with international humanitarian law by Israeli forces and (c) accountability for recent settler violence in the occupied West Bank.

Answered by Hamish Falconer - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

We continue to call on Israeli authorities to exercise restraint, adhere to international law, and clamp down on the actions of those who seek to inflame tensions. The Government is deeply concerned by the ongoing IDF military operation in the occupied West Bank and the attacks from Palestinian militants. It is in no one's interest for further conflict and instability to spread in the West Bank.

The UK strongly condemns settler violence and provocative remarks such as those made by Israel's National Security Minister Ben-Gvir, which threaten the status quo of the Holy Sites in Jerusalem. The Foreign Secretary was clear with PM Netanyahu on his visit to Israel and the OPTs in July that the Israeli government must clamp down on settler violence and end settlement expansion. The UK has sanctioned eight people responsible for perpetrating and inciting human rights abuses against Palestinian communities in the West Bank, and two entities. We keep all these issues under review and continue to discuss them with our closest allies.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of NHS England underwriting leases for GP practices.

Answered by Stephen Kinnock - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

Under the GP Contracts, premises liabilities are the responsibility of the contractor. Overall contractual payments reflect this arrangement, with the National Health Service also reimbursing direct premises costs including rent, business rates, water, and clinical waste.

There are 8,842 practice premises across England, of these, 51% are leased premises. The NHS is not a formal party to the leases on these properties. If NHS England were to consider a formal underwriting of the leases, legal advice notes, that would constitute a commitment, which would require capitalisation under the International Financial Accounting Standard IFRS16, and limited NHS capital budgets would have to be diverted to offset this commitment, in addition to the payment of rents against the properties.

This would provide, in effect, a double payment of costs against the asset and would commit substantial capital funds to the exercise, limiting the ability of integrated care systems to invest in the primary care estate, address secondary and community care, mental health services, and critical and usual infrastructure maintenance requirements, significantly adversely affecting the overall investment plans for communities. As a result, NHS England considers that a formal underwriting of leases would not provide best use of public funds.

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Found: Demonstration of Techniques, Standards and Best Available Techniques (BAT) – Scoping Exercise.

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Found: The Committee further asks the Scottish Government to set out to what extent, and how , it intends to exercise

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Found: STS and MIFC were notified; on receipt of the notification, MIFC, through a crowd funding exercise and

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Found: paths, forest walks and loch, and fears would put barriers for the community and the wider public to exercise

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Found: all chicken etc are checked the zone will not be lifted, how this affects racing pigeons,,,they can exercise

Found: Fire Safety Expert Group (BFSEG) on Miscellaneous Issues to be included in the public consultation exercise

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Found: possible that the personalisation measures set out in the Bill may also give people more confidence to exercise

Found: iMatter [redacted - out of scope ] PIN Compliance Following on from the recent PIN Compliance exercise

Found: Therefore, this reweighting exercise creates a discontinuity in the series between June to August 2022

Found: Therefore, the LFS reweighting exercise creates a break in the series between June 2022 and September

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Found: These are the individual score sheets for the procurement exercise.

Found: In exercise of the powers conferred by the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012, I am

Found: position on this for 2023 - 24 budgets is being confirmed in the context of the current SG Path to Balance exercise

Found: MARKET ENGAGEMENT & CONSULTATION It is intended to undertake an Open procurement exercise and not to

Found: This is a complex exercise which looks at a number of factors including how the project can be delivered

Found: interaction and stopping mental health problems from getting worse.Other projects focus on sport and exercise

Found: Thereafter, we intend to initiate a procurement exercise to appoint a contractor to undertake the

Found: Other projects focus on sport and exercise, nature, social spaces, art , befriending groups and many

Found: completed over the summer and officials will work with local authorities on a further data collection exercise

Found: Drinks producers could choose to appoint one or more scheme administrator (SA) to exercise certain obligations

Found: Other projects focus on sport and exercise, nature, social spaces, art and befriending groups as well

Found: Constitution and UK Relations, with the input of policy colleagues, have conducted a ‘lessons learned’ exercise

Found: aware of the Scottish Government’s view that the IMA is damaging to devolution and undermines the exercise

Found: Technology Platform 64 3.1.1 In November 2019, via a separate procurement exercise, OutSystems

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Found: 5.47 1.62 5.62 0.68 86.61 Q11 My child is encouraged by the school to be healthy and take regular exercise

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Found: Prehabilitation is the first step in the rehabilitation continuum and includes exercise, nutrition,

Found: Hi REDACTED SFRS current plan of action as follows; • RAG assessment of estate – A table top exercise

Found: still ongoing, I have concluded that there is a greater public interest in enabling Police Scotland to exercise

Found: Prehabilitation prepares people for cancer treatment and includes exercise, nutrition, psychological

Found: We are liaising with them to have this exercise completed as a matter of urgency with expected completion

Found: • Super -numerary posts from 2022 staffing exercise (34) – this is not an explanation that we

Found: to clarify that funding to SFF for the observer programme is a grant and not part of a procurement exercise

Found: information provision to consumers and the public (e.g. marketing) is accurate and balanced Review exercise

Found: We expect it to be received as part of the UK Government’s 2024-25 Supplementary Estimates exercise which

Found: local authorities signed up so far – one central belt and one north • Needs not to be a tick box exercise

Found: includes information on their rights – e.g. to independent legal advice and to compensation and how to exercise

Found: participation in the Pre -Commercialisation Stage and as required to fulfil their obligations and exercise

Found: local government impacts as part of the overall consideration of the tax (rather than repeating the exercise

Found: As part of our staffing exercise we also seek to maximise the number of probationer places across all

Found: A scoping exercise should be carried out for each of the recommendations, stating what is happening now

Found: Salmon Farming in Scotland’ recommendation 51: Scottish Government should initiate a spatial planning exercise

Found: Our response: The Scottish Government has undertaken an extensive consultation exercise with the following

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Found: Documents relating to formal consultation exercise on Scottish Executive policy on a particular topic

Found: has very different policy implications PROPOSED ACTION 1: A cross -sector community engagement exercise

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Found: and the other would be covered by the S35(1)(g) exemption – prejudice to a public authority in the exercise

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Found: 2) Who conducted this exercise?3) How was this data collected?4) How was this data verified?

Found: lWork with communities to take forward the findings of the Democracy Matters national engagement exercise

Found: necessary to procure an SOBC and develop a brief should be a relatively straightforward preparatory exercise

Found: Education Officer OFFER OF GRANT FOR MAINTAINING TEACHER NUMBERS The Scottish Ministers in exercise

Found: Whether or not you want to do that is up to you and I guess may depend on the timescales for this exercise

Found: There shall be no interference by a public authorit y with the exercise of this right except such as

Found: and Information Governance team is also responsible for managing requests from individuals seeking to exercise

Found: Confidentiality 13.1 You will exercise due care in the use of information to which you have access

Found: manufacturing, transportation and retail excise duty and VAT) which would be a complex and expensive exercise

Found: We can then begin a formal exercise to determine whether the cost limit would be breached.

Found: businesses in just 12 months. 4.24 Co-operative Development Scotland commission s a biennial census exercise

Found: point, and on ensuring that demonstrating appropriate channels for effective voice is not a “tick-box exercise

Found: tensions and conflict, and so that those participating, as well as anyone counter demonstrating, can exercise

Found: promote collective bargaining - particularly in underrepresented sectors, building on the mapping exercise

Found: The output from this exercise will prioritise all CSO monitoring in Scotland, and will be available to

Found: Whilst a scoping exercise is currently in progress to modernise the reporting system it is anticipated

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Found: stakeholders (including Healt h Boards). 4 CWS are currently undertaking an evidence gathering exercise

Found: Q: How does the Scottish Government exercise its borrowing powers, and what are the limits to that borrowing

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Found: Prevention Scotland Bill | Scottish Parliament Website The proposal is accompanied by a consultation exercise

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Found: Conditions, the Scottish Ministers may, provided that the breach is capable of a remedy, postpone the exercise

Found: In response to that they did a reassessment exercise which came up with current layout.

Found: this means the Scottish Government is threatening to withhold £192m of funding if councils choose to exercise

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Question

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-16692 by Natalie Don on 27 April 2023, whether it will provide an update on how it has progressed towards its commitment to deliver free breakfasts for all (a) primary and (b) special school children.

Answered by None

The Scottish Government remains committed to developing plans to deliver free breakfasts to all primary and special school children.

The Scottish Government worked with AssistFM and the Improvement Service from September 2023 to June 2024 to map breakfast provision across Scotland at both local authority and school level. A survey of all primary and special schools showed that almost half are already delivering breakfast provision. 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 places for children from families most at risk of living in poverty.

Question

To ask the Scottish Government how much brokerage it expects NHS Borders to owe before it returns a financial balance.

Answered by Gray, Neil - Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care

NHS Borders are escalated to Level 3 of the NHS Support and Intervention Framework for finance. To date NHS Borders have £20m outstanding brokerage from years 2019-20 to 2022-23.

Scottish Government continue to work with NHS Borders to create a credible and realistic path to balance. This is an ongoing exercise due to ongoing pay negotiations, high inflation and increased demand for services, but the Board will be expected to repay all outstanding brokerage when it has reached financial sustainability.

Question

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its work on inclusive communication, following the closure of its consultation on a Scottish Specific Duty on inclusive communication.

Answered by Stewart, Kaukab - Minister for Equalities

I issued a letter to stakeholders providing an update on the Scottish Government’s work on inclusive communication on 14 August 2024. Due to restrictions in relation to legislative competence, the decision has been made to enhance public authorities' inclusive communication through guidance, tools, and training.

A scoping exercise will identify existing resources and gaps, with new materials to be developed in collaboration with partners and informed by lived experience of using diverse communication tools and approaches. Ministerial powers will be used to require public authorities to consider inclusive communication when fulfilling their equality duties, ensuring more consistent practices.

Question

To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to address the reported issue of (a) giant hogweed and (b) other non-native invasive plants, and whether it is considering how climate change could be creating new pathways for the introduction and spread of non-native invasive plant species.

Answered by Allan, Alasdair - Acting Minister for Climate Action

As one of the five main drivers of biodiversity loss and a barrier to nature restoration, the Scottish Government takes the control of invasive non-native species (INNS) seriously and we work with a range of partners to minimise their negative impacts. We recognise that more action is needed on tackling invasive non-native plants; as a key component of the Biodiversity Delivery Plan, we are developing an INNS Action Plan to better focus resources on preventing and tackling INNS where possible.

In addition the Scottish Invasive Species Initiative (SISI) is tackling a range of invasive non-native plants including giant hogweed alongside water courses in an area of rivers of 29,500km2 within northern Scotland (approximately a third of mainland Scotland). Last year phase two of the SISI was awarded over £2 million under the Scottish Government’s Nature Restoration Fund. Phase two will run for three years and will focus on continuing the work to control and eradicate invasive non-native plants in current control areas as well as expanding this programme to many new downstream catchment locations.

The Scottish Government is considering how climate change will impact the introduction and spread of INNS. INNS that pose a threat to GB are currently being assessed for addition to both the GB and Scottish lists of species of special concern. Once added to these lists these species will become subject to a range of restrictions. In 2021 the Scottish Government commissioned a horizon scanning study on INNS. This work involved analysis of pathways of spread of INNS into Scotland and is feeding into decisions on listing species. Horizon scanning will be repeated every five years and the next exercise will take place in 2026.

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