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To ask the Scottish Executive how many lone parents have gone back on to income support having finished employment placements found through the New Deal in Scotland. The New Deal for Lone Parents programme does not offer temporary employment placements that would remove people from Income Support.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
16 February 2000
The Scottish Executive is at present considering a Regional Selective Assistance application from Signum Circuits. However no new awards of Regional Selective Assistance may be made until agreement has been reached with the European Commission on the detail of the new Assisted Areas map.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
14 February 2000
I cannot give you hard numbers but, to my mind, the recidivism rate is much lower than it was in the past, so in that respect the number of new sex offences has been reduced. With any crime, there will always be new offences carried out by the new and upcoming generation, in t...
The very same people who are currently employed in highly skilled refitting, engineering and technical jobs could be just as well employed on new ferries, new trains, new buses, magnetic resonance imaging or kidney machines and so on.
Like my colleagues David Mundell and Elaine Murray, I have regularly visited the crisis centre in Dumfries, where there is a stark and revealing map on a wall.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the smart card system to be employed as part of the new concessionary travel scheme will be used solely for travel purposes or whether it will be a multifunctional card.