Scottish Parliament
Business includes:
- Time for reflection: Rev Sarah Brown, Saint Machar’s Cathedral
- Topical Questions
- Scottish Government Debate: Supporting Scotland’s Islands on Their Journey to Become Carbon Neutral
- Committee Announcements
- Decision Time
- Members’ Business – S6M-04277 Beatrice Wishart: protecting Marine Life During Unexploded Ordnance Removal
The following committees will meet in the morning:
- Finance and Public Administration Committee
- Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
- Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
- Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
- Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
- Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
UK Parliament
Business includes:
- Oral questions (Treasury)
- Debate (Continuation of the debate on the Queen’s speech on tackling short-term and long-term cost of living increases)
- Oral evidence of the Economic Affairs Committee (UK energy supply and investment)
Aberdeen City Council
No business.
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 CV19 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.