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Delivered as part of Swinney's Programme for Government in September 2024, the Green Industrial Strategy sets out five priority areas relating to maximising Scotland’s wind economy, growing the hydrogen sector, developing the carbon capture, utilisation and storage sector, supporting green economy professional and financial services, and ...
The 56-page report described six programmes, 18 projects and 77 specific actions which would aim to improve Scotland's economy over a decade, by making Scotland fairer, wealthier and greener. [3] The main areas it focused on were creating an entrepreneurial culture , developing new market opportunities, and improving productivity, upskilling ...
In April 2024, Humza Yousaf, first minister of Scotland and leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP), faced a confidence challenge following his termination of the Bute House Agreement between the SNP and the Scottish Greens, which meant that Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater, co-leaders of the Greens and their only government ministers, were removed from government. [2]
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On 1 December 2024, the Prime Minister's Office announced that Starmer would be giving a major speech setting out the key milestones the government wished to achieve in its "next phase", saying that he would present "the most ambitious yet honest programme for government in a generation". [9]
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The annual Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland report shows a public spending deficit of £22.7bn for Scotland during 2023, an increase of £3.6bn from the previous year. [228] The Scottish Government confirms it will follow the UK government by scrapping universal winter fuel payments for pensioners, with the benefit to be means tested ...
In March 2024, the Scottish Government published Building a New Scotland: An independent Scotland's Place in the World, which proposed the establishment of a new Joint Forces Headquarters to be based at HMNB Clyde which would lead the establishment of a new Scottish Armed Forces. An independent Scotland's military capability would consist of ...