Scottish Parliament
Today’s business includes:
- General Questions
- First Minister’s Questions
- Members’ Business: S6M-07156 Caledonian Sleeper Service (in the name of Richard Leonard)
- Portfolio Questions
- Ministerial Statement: Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Act
- Scottish Government Debate: National Drugs Mission: Cross-government Response to the Drug Deaths Taskforce Report, Changing Lives
- Decision Time
- Members’ Business: S6M-06368 Circular Fashion: Looping the Thread (in the name of Stephanie Callaghan)
The following Committees are meeting this morning:
- Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee
- Public Audit Committee
- Education, Children and Young People Committee
UK Parliament
Today’s business includes:
- Oral Questions: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Backbench Business: Political situation and treatment of protesters in Iran
- Backbench Business: Landfill tax fraud
- Adjournment: Retained EU law and trading standards
- Westminster Hall debate: Royal Mail and the future of the universal service obligation
- Westminster Hall debate: Skills and labour shortages
- Public Accounts Committee – Oral evidence session on BBC Digital
- International Agreements Committee – Private Meeting
Aberdeenshire Council
Today’s business includes:
- Business Services Committee meeting
Aberdeen City Council
Today’s business includes:
- Planning Development Management Committee
News/Funding/Consultations
- Funding: Creative Scotland Open Fund – Sustaining Creative Development. This fund is for organisations and groups based in Scotland whose work or project involves the arts, screen and creative industries, and aims to enable such organisations to explore ways of working that will help them adapt and respond to the current changing circumstances as a result of covid-19. Grants of between £1,000 and £100,000 are available. For more information, please click here. The fund will close on 8th February 2023.
- Funding: Business Chargepoint Funding. Grants of up to 50% of the cost of purchasing and installing electric vehicle chargepoints for small and medium enterprises in rural areas. For more information, please click here.
- Consultation: Alcohol advertising and promotion. The Scottish Government are consulting on whether further restrictions on the alcohol advertising and promotion should be introduced, what any restrictions might cover and what might be expected from them. For more information, or to respond to the consultation, please click here. The closing date for responses is 9th March.
- Consultation: 2035 target for the amount of heat to be supplied by heat networks. The Scottish Government is seeking views on a proposed target relating to the combined supply of thermal energy through heat networks in Scotland by 2035. For more information, or to respond to the consultation, please click here. The closing date for responses is 11th March.