Scottish Parliament
Today’s business includes:
- Portfolio Questions: Constitution, External Affairs and Culture; Justice and Veterans
- Scottish Government Debate: The Fourth National Planning Framework
- Decision Time
- Members’ Business: S6M-07301 Long and Short Term Improvements Required on A75 (in the name of Finlay Carson)
The following Committees are meeting this morning:
- Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee
- Economy and Fair Work Committee (agenda items include an evidence session on ‘the outlook for business investment’
UK Parliament
Today’s business includes:
- Oral Questions: Scotland
- Prime Minister’s Question Time
- Westminster Hall debate: Fossil fuels and increases in the cost of living
- Westminster hall debate: Improving driver safety
- Westminster hall debate: Prevention of spiking incidents
- Oral Questions (Lords): Ensuring that all financial services are accessible and inclusive, including ATMs and point of sale terminals
- Sixth Delegated Legislation Committee – Debate: The draft Climate Change (Targeted Greenhouse Gases) Order 2022
- Northern Ireland Affairs Committee – Oral evidence session on the Implications of the Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland
- Home Affairs Committee – Private Meeting
- Transport Committee – Oral evidence session on Rail Strikes
- International Trade Committee – Private Meeting
- Constitution Committee – Private Meeting
- European Scrutiny Committee – Oral evidence session on Regulating after Brexit
- Environmental Audit Committee – Oral evidence session on Technological innovations and climate change: onshore solar energy
- Human Rights (Joint Committee) – Oral evidence session on Human Rights of Asylum Seekers in the UK
Aberdeenshire Council
No scheduled business
Aberdeen City Council
Today’s business includes:
- Anti-Poverty and Inequality Committee meeting
- A requistioned Council meeting to discuss: “The business proposed to be transacted relates to the impact on education from the apparent inability of the Scottish Government to enable an amicable agreement on teachers’ salaries.”
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.