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Today, the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth, John Swinney, is meeting with the Treasury, standing up for Scotland and trying to ensure that we get the best possible deal out of the financial settlement.
Data is matched from a variety of sources, including housing benefit, council tax, payroll, pensions and the electoral roll.
In the 2022/23 NFI exercise, new data was made available from HMRC and data matched from the Non-Domestic Rates Small Business Bonus Scheme.
Using human rights framing has not only proven a useful structure for a long-term approach, it has also provided an impetus and opportunities for innovation and piloting new approaches to engagement.
Our work on pre-Budget scrutiny also gave us the opportunity to collaborate with professional stakeholders and academics, including through a fellowship with ...
An Act of the UK Parliament, it makes provision for the regulation of social housing in England and Wales, including provisions requiring the Secretary of State to set out in regulations new requirements for social landlords to address hazards in social housing.iSocial Housing (Regulation) Act 2023.
Members asked about the financial impact of the Bill on the public sector and on businesses, and about the potential scale of the new duties. Paul Chapman stated that no major costs are expected as a result of the Bill and that the designation of critical suppliers (which would require them to comply with cyber security regulation) would only be used as a l...
The Scottish Drug Deaths Taskforce-funded research project, Researching and developing key components of a new Scottish drug checking programme, identified three areas as possible drug-checking pilot sites as well as a national hub based at the University of Dundee.
The Scottish Drug Deaths Taskforce-funded research project, Researching and developing key components of a new Scottish drug checking programme, identified three areas as possible drug-checking pilot sites as well as a national hub based at the University of Dundee.
The Scottish Drug Deaths Taskforce-funded research project, Researching and developing key components of a new Scottish drug checking programme, identified three areas as possible drug-checking pilot sites as well as a national hub based at the University of Dundee.
Reserved matters are set out in Schedule 5 of the Scotland Act 1998 (opens in new tab)
Reserved matters include:
benefits (some aspects)
betting and gambling
broadcasting
constitution (some aspects)
consumer protection policy
currency
data protection
defence and national security
equality legislation (most aspects)...
These monitoring and evaluation plans must:
Set out targets, indicators and measures against which progress towards implementation of the community wealth building action plan will be measured, including–
the proportion of local and regional spend by the community wealth building partnership in relation to the awarding of public procurement contracts,
the proportion of spend with small and medium sized enterprises in relation to the awarding of public procurement contracts,
the performance of businesses, including for the local authority area and region—
the number of new...