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The Disability Discrimination Act 1995, which is reserved to Westminster, protects disabled people from discrimination in employment, access to goods, facilities and services, the buying, renting or selling of land or property and education.
Planning System (Amenity Woodland) (PE918) Petition PE918, by Bill Lobban on behalf of Dalfaber action group, calls on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Executive to review the protection that is afforded to amenity woodland in the current planning system with a view to ensuring that the views of local people who enjoy visiting such woodland are...
I have received apologies from Karen Gillon, who will arrive late—the other members of the committee are here and no visiting members will attend the meeting, as far as I know.Under agenda item 1, the committee will consider whether to take item 4 in private.
Once again, I remind all members to turn off mobile phones and pagers.Let me just mention that we shall be joined by members of the Basque Government who are visiting the Scottish Parliament. They will appear in the course of the afternoon, and I shall introduce them when they do so.I welcome Brian Main, who is the adviser to the committee.
Jim Hislop is here from the Scottish Executive. He will hope that all his visits to the Education, Culture and Sport Committee are as simple as this one.
To be fair to the Executive, the order was drafted by the UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting, which is outwith the Executive's control, but perhaps we should draw the question to the Executive's attention.
The savings shown from portfolios (including procurement savings from health and local government) equal £674.7 million, shown as follows: Portfolio Page Savings (£ million) Administration 20 8 Communities 20 9 Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service 21 3 Education and Young People 22 12 Enterprise and Lifelong Learning 23 5 Environment and Rural Development 24 5 Scottish Water 24 95 Finance and Public Service Reform Local Government 24 325 Central Government 25 0.7 Health 25 166 Justice 26...
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Date answered:
8 October 2004
Estimates are available at Scotland levelonly, not by local authority area.Proportion and Number of Pensioners in Low-Income Households, Below 60% of GB Median Income, Scotland (Thousands) Year Absolute Relative Before Housing After Housing Before Housing After Housing Costs Costs Costs Costs % Numbers % Numbers % Numbers % Numbers 1998-99 17 150 23 200 21 180 26...