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The £20 a week—or £1,040 a year—cut to universal credit and working tax credit will impact more than 400,000 Scots households, of which more than 20,000 have a recognised unpaid carer.
I look forward to the expansion of foundation apprenticeships and I give credit to Jamie Hepburn for his commitment to expand the range of frameworks that will be available across Scotland in future years.
Local authorities can and do use this discretion to accept referrals from health visitors and other agencies for children who they believe will benefit from this provision who may not meet the statutory criteria for a 2 year old place.
Aberdeenshire Council (Budget Settlement 2025-26) To ask the Scottish Government whether it has assessed the impact of its budget settlement for Aberdeenshire Council in 2025-26 on the local authority’s ability to deliver local services.
I ask the questioners and those who answer to bear that in mind.Scottish Universal Credit Flexibilities (Take-up) Scottish Universal Credit Flexibilities (Take-up) To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the take-up among claimants of the Scottish universal credit flexibilities.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
30 August 2017
SE support of £193,000 was granted to Pladis (owned by Yildiz Holding) in October 2016 to help attract a significant manufacturing project to the Tollcross site and create new jobs.
Let us be world leading in every respect. Last and more important is the siting of fish farms. My view is that we should give serious consideration to closed containment or onshore sites; moving sites that are in sensitive areas; and potentially closing those sites where everyone agrees that mortality levels are unsustainable or that are repeat offenders.
NatureScot’s latest Conservation and Management Advice for the Red Rocks and Longay MPA made the recommendation to consider reducing or limiting the intensity of creeling within the site. However no threshold could be provided by NatureScot for reducing or limiting creel numbers to allow the activity to be permitted in the site so as to meet the conservation objectives of the MPA.