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On top of important benefits such as free tuition, the new package includes an annual minimum income of £7,250, through a combination of bursaries and loans, for students with a family income of less than £17,000.
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Date answered:
16 January 2014
To ask the Scottish Government whether North Ayrshire will no longer have access to the £23 million in Scottish Futures Trust funding in light of the council's decision not to proceed with the new schools campus. In September 2012, the Scottish Government allocated provisional funding to support the replacement or refurbishment of 30 schools under Phase II...
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Date answered:
16 January 2014
In addition, using the Pillar 1 ANC payment would require us to use the new ANC land eligibility designations immediately, which would result in disruption to the current less favoured areas (LFA) system.
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Date answered:
6 January 2014
Transport Scotland has had discussions with SPT over a number of years on the scope and progress of the project, including the new smart card based ticketing system.
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Date answered:
9 December 2013
In line with the ORR’s Determination for CP5 the Scottish Government will also ensure payment of the proportion of track access cost charges allocated to the new, separate Caledonian Sleeper franchise.
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Date answered:
4 December 2013
Responsible citizens should be able to make informed choices and decisions, whilst effective contributors will apply critical thinking in new contexts. The briefing paper describes a number of activities which would support the teaching of political literacy, including discussions and debates.
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Date answered:
19 November 2013
Following this advice, the Department of Health and Public Health England conducted a procurement exercise on behalf of the UK Health Departments for the new childhood influenza vaccination programme, which resulted in supplies of Fluenz being made available to vaccinate some children across the UK this flu season as part of a phased rollout of that program...
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Date answered:
10 October 2013
However, the Scottish Government, with local authorities, have implemented monitoring arrangements for the new CTR scheme which will be used to inform future policy development and evaluation of the scheme, including forecasting caseload and expenditure.
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Date answered:
25 September 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what actions it is considering taking to ensure that people with chronic pain are not criminalised when the offence of driving under the influence of drugs is introduced. The proposed new offence of drug driving in section 5A of the Road Traffic Act 1988 contains a medical defence.
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Date answered:
19 September 2013
This will involve a stepped and controlled move across from the Scottish Animal Movement System (SAMS) which was set up in 2002 to the new ScotEID database system which became operational during 2010.