Scottish Parliament
Business includes:
- Portfolio Questions
- Scottish Labour Party Debate: Supporting Carers During the Cost-of-Living Crisis
- Scottish Labour Party Debate: Protecting Attainment Funding
- Decision Time
- Members’ Business – S6M-03646 Tess White: Improving the Disaster Response to Serious Welfare Events
The following committees will meet in the morning:
- Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee
- Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
- Criminal Justice Committee
- Economy and Fair Work Committee
- Education, Children and Young People Committee
UK Parliament
Business includes:
- Oral questions (Scotland)
- Prime Minister’s Question Time
- Debate (Conclusion of the debate on the Queen’s Speech on achieving economic growth)
- Oral evidence of the Work and Pensions Committee (Universal Credit and Managed Migration)
- Oral evidence of the International Trade Committee (UK trade negotiations: Agreement with New Zealand)
Aberdeen City Council
Business includes a Statutory meeting, Council.
Aberdeenshire Council
No business.
News/consultations/funding
- Support for fishing and coastal communities – a new round of funding to support fishing businesses and wider marine organisations in coastal communities is open for applications. More information can be found here.
- A96 Consultation - In August 2021, the Scottish Government and Scottish Green Party Parliamentary Group agreed a Cooperation Agreement and a shared policy programme. As part of this shared policy programme, various agreed principles regarding investment in the transport network were set out. In relation to the A96, the Scottish Government committed to take forward a transport enhancements programme on the A96 corridor that will improve connectivity between surrounding towns, tackle congestion and address safety and environmental issues. These issues include: the bypassing of Inverurie (and other towns), targeted road safety improvements (i.e Oyne Fork), the development of an A96 “Electric Highway” and bus prioritisation measures. Transport Scotland is seeking a better understanding of how the A96 corridor is used, particularly given the changes to everyone’s lives due to Covid-19 pandemic, and the extent to which the climate emergency makes a difference to how people travel on the A96 in the future. They have launched an online consultation which is seeking views on existing issues along the A96 corridor, and the kind of opportunities that could be realised in the future. For more information on the details of these proposals please see here or to go directly to the survey click here. Deadline – June 10 2022.
- Electric Vehicle Charge Point Tourism Recovery Fund - The Electric Vehicle Charge Point Fund provides a one-off payment to tourism businesses in Scotland to help cover the cost to install an electric vehicle charge point. For further information or to apply please click here.