Current status: Answered by Kaukab Stewart on 12 November 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to improve the total fertility rate.
Falling birth rates are a demographic trend replicated across many high-income countries, with significant future implications for our economies, communities and public services.
The Family Friendly Nation strand of our Population Strategy sets out our ambition to ensure Scotland is the ideal place to raise a family. In delivering this, in November 2022, the Ministerial Population Taskforce published ‘Attitudes to Family Formation in Scotland’ to update our evidence base about family planning and ideal family size.
Next steps are being considered by the Taskforce, including scoping potential policy lessons from international comparators to support people to have the number of children they wish to have.