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Select Committee
Department for Work and Pensions
 DYE0042 - Disability employment

Written Evidence Apr. 26 2024

Inquiry: Disability employment
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Work and Pensions Committee (Department: Department for Work and Pensions)

Found: Government aims to open up opportunities to good work, supporting a healthier, more productive and inclusive

Select Committee
Professor Anica Zeyen, and Professor Oana Branzei
 DYE0035 - Disability employment

Written Evidence Apr. 26 2024

Inquiry: Disability employment
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Work and Pensions Committee (Department: Department for Work and Pensions)

Found: based on qualitative long-term data that seek to understand the lived experience of employment and entrepreneurship

Select Committee
Jacqueline Winstanley, and Helen Lawton Smith
 DYE0030 - Disability employment

Written Evidence Apr. 26 2024

Inquiry: Disability employment
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Work and Pensions Committee (Department: Department for Work and Pensions)

Found: self-employed disabled people New evidence from three studies highlights the importance of not only entrepreneurship

Scottish Government Publication (Advice and guidance)
Local Government and Housing Directorate

Apr. 25 2024

Source Page: Scottish Government Planning Guidance - Local living and 20 minute neighbourhoods
Document: Scottish Government Planning Guidance: Local living and 20 minute neighbourhoods (PDF)

Found: Aspects to consider include: • providing inclusive access to attractive, nature rich routes, parks and

Commons Chamber
Buckland Review of Autism Employment - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Marion Fellows (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) track record on.A lack of access to good-quality careers advice, inflexible hiring practices and non-inclusive - Speech Link
2: Mims Davies (Con - Mid Sussex) We recognise talent, ability and entrepreneurship. - Speech Link

Scottish Parliament Written Question
S6W-26584
Wednesday 24th April 2024

Asked by: Johnson, Daniel (Scottish Labour - Edinburgh Southern)

Question

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-22036 by Neil Gray on 19 October 2023, what action it has taken in relation to its commitment to improve its collection and reporting of data on how women are supported by Scotland’s business support systems and how its actions are closing the gender gap and widening participation in entrepreneurship.

Answered by McAllan, Màiri - Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Net Zero and Just Transition

The Business Support Partnership (BSP) is a commitment from Scottish Government, Scotland’s Enterprise and Skills Agencies, Business Gateway, and Local Government to develop a streamlined, efficient, and effective business support system that drives collaboration at a local, regional, and national level. Partners are committed to including the voice of businesses and communities and delivering inclusive and fair support that is underpinned by shared research, aligned customer surveying and data.

In its Strategic Delivery Plan 2023-2026, the BSP sets out its goal to ensure that the business support system in Scotland is inclusive, accessible and responsive, and that it recognises underrepresented groups, targets priority areas and supports socio-economic growth in response to data and the views of customers.

This is a long term undertaking, but one that is central to closing the gap in entrepreneurial participation. Better collection and reporting of data will provide us with essential information, which will allow us to prioritise and target support to under-represented and under-supported groups and to measure our progress.

Alongside this work we continue to develop our response to the broader recommendations of the Pathways report with emphasis on the establishment of Pre-Start support, with the Pathways Pre-Start Fund awarding £1.3m in partner led programmes aimed at widening entrepreneurial participation in 2023-24.

Select Committee
The University of Edinburgh
 CRG0006 - City Region and Growth Deals

Written Evidence Apr. 23 2024

Inquiry: City Region and Growth Deals
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Scottish Affairs Committee (Department: Scotland Office)

Found: ”, with ambitious targets to support, enhance and improve talent, research, commercial adoption and entrepreneurship

Select Committee
Highlands and Islands Enterprise
 CRG0003 - City Region and Growth Deals

Written Evidence Apr. 23 2024

Inquiry: City Region and Growth Deals
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Scottish Affairs Committee (Department: Scotland Office)

Found: The others are fair and inclusive growth, and coordination and delivery of regional transformational

Scottish Government Publication (Minutes)
Economic Development Directorate

Apr. 19 2024

Source Page: Convention of the Highlands and Islands minutes: March 2024
Document: Convention of the Highlands and Islands minutes: March 2024 (webpage)

Found: It's really important that we draw and we take that forward in a really positive manner that's really inclusive

Non-Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Competition and Markets Authority

Apr. 18 2024

Source Page: The CMA at 10: Past reflections and a look ahead to the next decade of promoting competition and protecting consumers
Document: UK’s open banking regime has also been called ‘the envy of the European FinTech community’ (PDF)

Found: There is a real need to create better ways of working and better systems to deliver a more inclusive