The Covenant Duty currently applies, in Scotland, to local authorities, health and education bodies in relation to specific statutory functions only; • Extend the Covenant Duty to public functions exercised in additional policy areas, specifically: childcare, education and training, employment, health and social care, housing, social security benefits, personal taxation, criminal justice, transport, pensions, immigration and citizenship, and Armed Forces compensation; • Change the existing Duty from applying to a number of specific statutory duties within the housing functions of the bodies subject to the Duty, to a broader definition applying to all housing-related public functions of the bodies subject to the Duty; • Make provision that when exercising a function to which the Covenant Duty applies, the assessment of disadvantage arising for service people from membership of the armed forces is to be assessed by reference to others in comparable...