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As chair of the cross-party group in the Scottish Parliament on diabetes, I am particularly interested in diabetes screening using a biochemically stable test, which means that screening can be done at any time of the day rather than requiring a fasting sample.
The legal responsibility to pay the shortfall in housing benefit lies with the tenant. The help is available as a result of the money that we are making available, but tenants must apply for it.
We need to try to get the balance right so that tenanted land continues to be made available while, at the same time, the rights of the tenant are improved.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
8 September 2016
All official Ministerial visits are published at: http://www.gov.scot/About/People/14944/Events-Engagements/MinisterialEngagements/MinisterialEngagements Visits from May 2016 onwards will be published shortly on: https://beta.gov.scot/ S5W-01987
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
9 October 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what rights a landlord has to change the locks on their property if a tenant has moved out but has kept the keys to the landlord’s property.
Building on the technology focus of the visit, the First Minister later visited the Flatiron School, a digital skills academy in New York that is helping equip people with skills to gain employment in ICT and digital technology occupations.
To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason the introduction of nuchal transparency screening has been delayed in NHS (a) Greater Glasgow and Clyde and (b) Western Isles.