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Roseanna Cunningham SNP Committee
04 Nov 2015
Work, Wages and Wellbeing Inquiry
The business pledge did not emanate from my portfolio, but that does not mean that I am not actively involved in pursuing it. I guess that this is like procurement—it does not emanate from my portfolio, but that does not mean that I have no interest in it. One of the hallmark...
The Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform (Roseanna Cunningham) SNP Committee
28 Jun 2016
Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform
The past week puts everything in my portfolio into a slightly different light; my portfolio and possibly the rural economy portfolio are the two that are most heavily impacted by the EU. Just about every aspect of what we do will have to be seen against the new backdrop. Our ...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Committee
15 Jan 2019
Budget Scrutiny 2019-20
I am not conscious of any funding for the infrastructure commission coming out of my portfolio. I cannot see where it would have come from. It is not being set up on that basis; it is being set up under the appropriate portfolio. However, it is a whole-Government infrastructur...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Committee
19 Dec 2017
Draft Budget Scrutiny 2018-19
I am sorry, but I am not really understanding what you are looking for. Obviously, our overall portfolio budget has gone up. There is more money in the climate change budget and we have to roll out land reform actions, which has required allocation of further funding for the r...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Committee
15 Feb 2021
Climate Change Plan
I am not sure what you are asking. As much as possible, we are staying across the research that is done and looking for opportunities that we think Scotland could benefit from. I am not a scientist, but I know that there are potential technological changes out there that mig...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Committee
15 Feb 2021
Budget 2021-22
It is already impacting on some of the thinking and decisions. The current uncertainty about what might replace EU funding is impacting on what we have to think about doing, so it is a real concern. On the impacts on my portfolio, the existing European regional development fun...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Committee
15 Feb 2021
Budget 2021-22
I preface my response by pointing out that delivery is not done through my portfolio, so, as always, I have to tread carefully. The Infrastructure Commission recognised the role of infrastructure beyond the economy, with its support for social and environmental policy outcom...
Roseanna Cunningham: SNP Committee
16 Sep 2009
Public Services Reform (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
In the portfolio for which I am responsible, there are no further plans to reform public bodies. The proposals that we are discussing are our only ones to implement what might broadly be described as public sector reform. I have no further plans to do anything of that nature w...
The Minister for Community Safety and Legal Affairs (Roseanna Cunningham) SNP Chamber
30 Apr 2014
Historic Institutional Child Abuse
I congratulate Graeme Pearson on securing the debate and on the careful and sympathetic way in which he handled a difficult subject—the same applies to all the members who have spoken. I will start by responding to issues that lie in the justice portfolio. Members will real...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Committee
04 Nov 2015
Work, Wages and Wellbeing Inquiry
The business pledge does not sit directly within my portfolio; it sits across my portfolio and the Deputy First Minister’s portfolio. There were early conversations about it, because the STUC raised the issue of conditionality, so we had a conversation directly with the STUC a...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Committee
04 Nov 2015
Work, Wages and Wellbeing Inquiry
One could argue that the creation of my portfolio is, in a sense, one answer to that. Job quality is what this is about and many of the things that we do are around that. However, there are issues that would need to be explored about some wider aspects of conditionality. You ...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Chamber
01 Jun 2016
Taking Scotland Forward: Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform
I think that I dealt with that in response to Mark Ruskell’s question. I have indicated what the Government’s position is. The member is aware that the energy minister will close the debate and will pick up on more of the specific issues. Our new land reform act seeks to tra...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Committee
28 Jun 2016
Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform
Most aspects of every portfolio will impinge on other portfolios. There are no hard lines between portfolios. The Scottish national action plan on human rights, for example, will refer, among other things, to the right to housing and the right to have employment. Land rights t...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Chamber
13 Sep 2017
Portfolio Question Time · Energy Efficiency and Climate Change (Support for Products)
I will struggle to bring that within the remit of my portfolio, but I am aware that some of the aspects that the member raised are germane to my previous portfolio responsibilities in fair work, skills and training. If he wishes to have a much more detailed conversation on tha...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Committee
08 May 2018
EU Environmental and Animal Welfare Principles Inquiry
We intend to publish them. The report was in draft form on 19 March and is currently being worked on; the final report will be published. People will get to see that, and it might be of interest to the committee to have a look at it, in a future meeting. I can elaborate on ...
The Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform (Roseanna Cunningham) SNP Committee
04 Dec 2018
EU Exit and the Environment
Thank you, convener. I will be brief. Fergus Ewing and I are concerned about the likely negative impacts that Brexit will have for our portfolios. I want to make three points about the expected impact across my portfolio and briefly flag up to the committee how we are respond...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Committee
04 Dec 2018
EU Exit and the Environment
I would not argue that there are any actual guarantees about anything at the moment. Where there is agreement between both Governments about where powers to set environmental standards lie, there is broad agreement that they will return to Scotland—if that is where they have c...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Committee
15 Jan 2019
Budget Scrutiny 2019-20
I have talked about the work that SNH, in particular, is doing in that area. Our natural health programme works hard and it is a strategic intervention in NHS green space for health partnerships, of which there are now a number around Scotland. We intend to show the benefits, ...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Committee
15 Jan 2019
Budget Scrutiny 2019-20
On woodland grants, We consider that the draft budget currently contains sufficient provision to meet the target of planting 10,000 hectares a year. The increase to meet the target of 15,000 hectares a year will need to be considered in future budgets, and I cannot speak to wh...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Chamber
16 Jun 2020
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Statistics (2018)
The question was quite long, but I will try to be as quick as possible. Claudia Beamish knows that the energy company does not sit in my portfolio. I will refer her comments to the relevant portfolio. I have already tasked the just transition commission with looking at the ...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Committee
23 Feb 2021
European Union Exit
To a certain extent, I could repeat some of the things that I have said already in my answers. We want to ensure that future trading arrangements support our economic recovery, do not disadvantage domestic producers, do not undermine existing standards—including on the environ...
The Minister for Environment (Roseanna Cunningham): SNP Chamber
06 May 2009
Climate Change (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
I appear to be semi-closing the debate, which is a rather unusual position to be in. I will not have time to address every point that will be addressed in the closing speech of tomorrow afternoon's debate. The allocation of two days to the debate is an indication of the bill's...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Chamber
10 Dec 2014
Portfolio Question Time · Work Programme (Devolution to Local Authorities)
It is fair to say that, since the Smith commission report was published, the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations, Skills Development Scotland and the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities have all expressed a view that they would be able to run the new employment p...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Chamber
04 Jun 2014
Portfolio Question Time · Employment Tribunals (Fees)
I need to be careful not to stray into colleagues’ portfolio areas. I remind the member that councils are independent corporate bodies and decisions on equal pay and pay negotiations and legal costs are entirely matters for them. Nevertheless, the Scottish Government is keen ...
The Cabinet Secretary for Fair Work, Skills and Training (Roseanna Cunningham) SNP Chamber
20 May 2015
Portfolio Question Time · Access to Work Scheme
I believe that Graeme Dey was in the chamber when I answered a similar question from Jackie Baillie in the previous portfolio questions. I reassure him that we continue to work with the DWP to understand better the future impact of the changes in Scotland, and to press for ass...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Committee
28 Jun 2016
Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform
In effect, that is shorthand for saying that I have not had discussions with the various agencies about land Scotland because it is not directly in my portfolio. That is not to say that I will not have to discuss it because it is one of the areas that will have some impact on ...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Chamber
09 Nov 2016
Portfolio Question Time · Biodiversity (Central Scotland Green Network)
We continue to make progress in respect of biodiversity. As I have indicated in the meetings that I have had—even those this week, including with the CSGN yesterday—we know that there is still a great deal more to be done. As an example of one thing that links across the portf...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Chamber
09 Nov 2016
Portfolio Question Time · Biodiversity (Central Scotland Green Network)
I try not to get drawn into extended arguments about specific definitions. In previous years, when I was responsible for some of my current portfolio, people even questioned the use of the word “biodiversity”. The member has probably been in that kind of conversation. We can ...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Committee
20 Dec 2016
Draft Budget Scrutiny 2017-18
Whole government activity is always a bit harder. You flagged up transport, and there are clearly things that could happen in a variety of portfolios that might impact on that for better or worse. The joined-upness of the thinking is what counts. We do a great deal of joined-u...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Chamber
17 Jan 2017
Topical Question Time · Air Pollution
First, we expect an initial low emission zone to be in place by the end of 2018. That is what we are working towards. A great deal of water has to go under that particular bridge before it is in place and it will be interesting to see how many of the campaign commitments that ...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Committee
27 Jun 2017
Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform (General Update)
It is not my bill; it is not a portfolio bill. The policy and consultation process is generally supported by Cabinet, but it is clearly being taken forward by a different portfolio—by Fergus Ewing, the Cabinet Secretary for the Rural Economy and Connectivity. My involvement, t...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Committee
05 Dec 2017
Air Quality
As the member knows, neither the minister nor I is responsible for Scotland’s planning system. From the perspective of my portfolio, I not only hope but expect that environmental, climate change and air quality considerations will be fully taken on board in planning decisions....
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Committee
05 Dec 2017
Air Quality
Quite. The member knows perfectly well which other portfolio will have an interest in the subject. In these circumstances, it would probably be helpful for the committee to raise it directly with that portfolio. We are aware that total annual ammonia emissions in Scotland are ...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Committee
19 Dec 2017
Draft Budget Scrutiny 2018-19
That is a difficult question, because things can change at any time. Fifteen years ago, you would probably not have had somebody sitting here saying that climate change was an absolutely core area—but here we are, and it is. Decisions that are made in one year, or even in one ...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Committee
19 Dec 2017
Draft Budget Scrutiny 2018-19
We are not at that stage. I am not conscious that that is part of the conversation in my portfolio, although the Government has begun to talk about it in a cross-portfolio way because, if we are not careful, the drive to push down fuel poverty could create problems for climate...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Committee
19 Dec 2017
Draft Budget Scrutiny 2018-19
The impact will vary, depending on the sector. Aspects of what we do in my portfolio and the rural economy portfolio will be very significantly impacted.
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Committee
19 Dec 2017
Draft Budget Scrutiny 2018-19
Yes. There have been significant issues with particular schemes in the last year, and I think that the integrated administration and control system—IACS—is one of them. There was not really a cut, but there was a difficulty with the programme. I am responsible for my portfoli...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Chamber
21 Feb 2018
Portfolio Question Time · Aberdeen Green Belt Development (Environmental Impact)
The member must be well aware that his question is not one for this portfolio. I advise him that local authorities are responsible for the designation and the protection of green belts to help to direct developments to the right locations, which they do as part of a local deve...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Chamber
21 Feb 2018
Portfolio Question Time · Environmental Protection (Scottish Borders)
I can hear that it is a matter of great boredom to the Conservatives when anyone mentions Brexit. It might be of interest to members to know that I am going to Cardiff on Monday to discuss a number of Brexit-related issues that relate directly to my portfolio. Emma Harper is ...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Chamber
18 Apr 2018
Portfolio Question Time · Marine Environment
The electrofishing trials that Finlay Carson referred to are a particular policy of the rural economy portfolio. I will ask Fergus Ewing to respond to the member in more detail, but I can say that both Fergus Ewing and I have constant conversations in respect of issues such as...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Committee
24 Apr 2018
National Performance Framework National Outcomes
From my perspective, wellbeing is so bound up with people’s economic and social lives that we cannot split them apart and separate them from one another. I know from a previous portfolio responsibility that being involved in good and productive work plays an enormous part in p...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Committee
08 May 2018
EU Environmental and Animal Welfare Principles Inquiry
I have outlined what the round table is giving us advice on, and it is very much on point with that. In the main, that is the area that it has been looking quite hard at, although I cannot say whether it will try to give us formal recommendations or simply give us a suite of p...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Committee
18 Sep 2018
Scottish Crown Estate Bill: Stage 2
Amendment 18 has been developed in response to the committee’s stage 1 recommendations, and will strengthen the obligations on managers to manage assets in a particular way. It will place on managers the obligation that they “must have regard to the desirability of managing” ...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Committee
04 Dec 2018
EU Exit and the Environment
We have a number of concerns about our day 1 readiness in the event of there being no deal. We have tried to map the most significant concerns. For example, one concern relates to waste shipment. There is a risk that a no-deal exit and new customs controls could stop or slow d...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Committee
15 Jan 2019
Budget Scrutiny 2019-20
That is part and parcel of the work that is taking place, and the committee is integral to much of that. Regardless of what anybody thinks might happen, we are preparing for no deal, and because we are preparing for all eventualities, we are having these conversations all the ...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Chamber
16 Jan 2019
Portfolio Question Time · Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Cessation of Medical Waste Services)
There are a number of questions, and some of them are not entirely within my portfolio remit. I am sure that Monica Lennon realises that. I will try to deal with as much as I can. The best available evidence suggests that there is a backlog of somewhere between 250 and 300 to...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Chamber
16 Jan 2019
Portfolio Question Time · District Heating Schemes (Carbon Reduction Target)
I think that all members of the Government would be able to answer yes to that. I know that Tavish Scott has been in discussion with my colleague Kevin Stewart on related issues; I should also say that my colleague Paul Wheelhouse will be anxious that I remind Tavish Scott of ...
The Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform (Roseanna Cunningham) SNP Committee
30 Apr 2019
EU Exit and the Environment
We need to remember that, at the moment, there are no frameworks in place and that the frameworks in question are simply proposed ones. Four legislative frameworks are being proposed for this portfolio interest: chemicals; waste, particularly producer responsibility and waste ...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Committee
21 May 2019
Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
I cannot tell you what you can expect to see coming out of it, because that would be pre-announcing what is coming out of it, and I am not in a position to do that. As I indicated, work has begun in the portfolio areas—at cabinet secretary, minister and senior official level—t...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Committee
21 May 2019
Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
All portfolios have been asked to look in their areas, even those that have not hitherto regarded themselves as being on the front line. There is a handful of portfolio areas—such as the rural economy, transport, housing and energy—that people see as being part of that wider f...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Committee
21 May 2019
Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
The review that has been on-going is not yet out there; I have not yet made any decisions in respect of it. However, as I said, everything—and that means everything—in my portfolio has to be up for scrutiny. All funding for community action on climate change has to be consider...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Chamber
05 Jun 2019
Portfolio Question Time · Low-carbon Infrastructure and Homes
The Government is doing an enormous amount of work on energy efficiency and a huge amount of finance work is on-going, which I think will be well over £1 billion by the time we get to 2021. That work is very much part of the answer to Mr Rowley’s question. There are some very...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Chamber
04 Sep 2019
Portfolio Question Time · Climate Change (Agricultural Sector)
I would say—and it is true—that Scotland is leading the way in its actions. We were among the first countries in the world to declare a global climate emergency, and we followed that declaration with a world-leading net zero target and a programme for government that prioritis...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Chamber
06 Nov 2019
Portfolio Question Time · Geese and Stoat Population Management (Orkney)
I am always looking for more money for my portfolio; I hope that Jamie Halcro Johnston will take that as read. However, the arrangement between SNH and the Orkney goose management group talks about a range of actions. I do not want to list them because I suspect that the membe...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Committee
26 Nov 2019
Budget Scrutiny 2020-21
Obviously, the delay in the UK budget means that we do not have an idea of the global amount of money that we will have to spend in Scotland. I am sure that you will be asking Kate Forbes about the more general issues concerning that. However, that means that my portfolio budg...
The Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform (Roseanna Cunningham) SNP Committee
29 Oct 2019
European Union Exit (Environment)
Thank you, convener. Today is interesting timing for this discussion. Notwithstanding where we are in the process, I continue to be deeply concerned about the negative impacts of EU exit, whenever it happens and whatever the terms. I am particularly troubled by the on-going t...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Chamber
05 Feb 2020
Portfolio Question Time · Climate Emergency Challenges
The Scottish Government continues to be as ambitious as it possibly can be in respect of a range of issues in the climate change portfolio, as the member knows particularly well. We are progressing. We are doing better than a vast number of countries; we are one of the global ...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Chamber
05 Feb 2020
Portfolio Question Time · Mossmorran
I am always prepared to consider what might be helpful interventions. I should, of course, point out that Mossmorran is a cross-portfolio issue, so any consideration would have to be given on that basis. I am aware of the climate camp. In my view, there is no doubt about this...
The Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform (Roseanna Cunningham) SNP Committee
18 Feb 2020
Budget Scrutiny 2020-21
The difficulty with alignment this year has been that we are in the process of developing the updated climate change plan, so there has been an unusual scenario. In my portfolio, the budget is intended to directly support our efforts in the climate change plan update. Colleagu...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP Committee
29 Apr 2020
Subordinate Legislation
I cannot give an exact FTE figure. I can say that there has been a significant redirection of resources within and around the Scottish Government to deal with the current crisis. However, underlying the member’s question is an assumption that all non-Covid business should ceas...
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Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee 04 November 2015

04 Nov 2015 · S4 · Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee
Item of business
Work, Wages and Wellbeing Inquiry
Cunningham, Roseanna SNP Perthshire South and Kinross-shire Watch on SPTV
The business pledge did not emanate from my portfolio, but that does not mean that I am not actively involved in pursuing it. I guess that this is like procurement—it does not emanate from my portfolio, but that does not mean that I have no interest in it. One of the hallmarks of my portfolio is that it is leaky round the edges. The business portfolio is not the only one that has a bit of an overlap with mine—that also applies to social justice and education. There is a broad area around the edge of my portfolio that impacts on other portfolios, and other portfolios impact on us.

In the same item of business

The Convener Con
Under item 2, we are continuing our inquiry into work, wages and wellbeing in the Scottish labour market. Today, we will have our final evidence session. I w...
The Cabinet Secretary for Fair Work, Skills and Training (Roseanna Cunningham) SNP
Yes, just for a couple of minutes. Thanks very much for the invitation to contribute to this inquiry. The link between work, wages and wellbeing is pretty mu...
The Convener Con
Thank you, cabinet secretary, for that introductory statement. We will now move to questions. We will cover a range of the topics that you mentioned in your ...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP
The last part of your question would lead us into a discussion of subjects such as wage subsidies and so on, and I do not know whether that is where you want...
The Convener Con
That is an interesting answer. Where are we with that conversation? Is it already happening, or is it something to which you aspire?
Roseanna Cunningham SNP
I am already having those conversations. In fact, the conversations have been going on for quite a while. The purpose of our continued focus on the living w...
The Convener Con
Let me go back to my original question about mechanisms. In the course of the inquiry, we have looked at the question of conditionality. For example, people ...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP
There are conversations about whether more specific things can be done through mechanisms such as those that you have suggested. However, we wanted to get th...
The Convener Con
Okay. Johann Lamont has a question on the wages issue.
Johann Lamont (Glasgow Pollok) (Lab) Lab
I was interested in what you said about the small business bonus scheme, cabinet secretary. It feels as if that would be a good area in which to explore cond...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP
That is an important aspect, because the situation can almost be turned on its head. I have conversations with people in which I say that the living wage has...
Johann Lamont Lab
It would be useful to know what dialogue you have directly with unions, particularly those representing workers in very pressured areas such as the retail an...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP
It is. We have regular conversations and—I do not want to name names of companies because that would not be fair—I am conscious that there are some big compa...
Johann Lamont Lab
The evidence was from the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers representative last week, who indicated that the union has had only very limited con...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP
I am happy to talk to anybody, and I have had meetings with a variety of unions as well as directly with the STUC. Of course, half of the members of the fair...
Dennis Robertson (Aberdeenshire West) (SNP) SNP
Good morning, cabinet secretary. You mentioned the fair work convention in your opening comments, and you referred to it again just now. It was set up on the...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP
You would probably find a great many definitions of fair work. It may be that one of the early conversations that the fair work convention members had was to...
Dennis Robertson SNP
I think that that is my question.
Roseanna Cunningham SNP
I do not particularly like any of the definitions I have seen. I could tell you what I think a good job is, but that would be an entirely subjective assessme...
Dennis Robertson SNP
But, in general terms, the fair work convention must have a reasonable definition that it is trying to bring parties together on.
Roseanna Cunningham SNP
The fair work convention will be working and developing a sense of how it sees the issue. I have tried to stay as hands-off as I can on that. I have occasion...
Dennis Robertson SNP
You are confirming what the co-chairs said to us, which is that they are really quite autonomous. The co-chairs also said that they are trying not to be too ...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP
I am not quite sure what you are asking me. I suppose that you could grow the definition of wellbeing to draw in just about everything right across the board...
Dennis Robertson SNP
That is my point. Is wellbeing the thread that is running through all the themes to ensure that, when we are looking at a specific such as the living wage, w...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP
To a certain extent, yes, but it is very difficult to define wellbeing. As I said just a few minutes ago, I could give you a subjective definition of good wo...
Dennis Robertson SNP
I know that the Deputy First Minister has always said that there are things such as equality that go across all portfolios. I am probably trying to ascertain...
Roseanna Cunningham SNP
As I think I said earlier, it is hard for me to answer a question that is, in effect, for the fair work convention. Genuinely, I am not sitting in on meeting...
Dennis Robertson SNP
But it is good is a favourable outcome. Are you confident that the stage 1 report will be ready and available in March?
Roseanna Cunningham SNP
Do you mean the phase 1 report—the blueprint?
Dennis Robertson SNP
Yes.