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Child Disability Payment (Processing Times) Today it has been reported that processing times for child disability payment applications have risen to more than 100 days. That represents just the latest failure of Social Security Scotland to deliver for people who are in need.
Indeed, I remind the minister of her own party’s manifesto, which commits the Scottish Greens to at least two new national parks and one new regional park.
The Great British beach clean has been around for 26 years and one positive outcome is that more and more people are becoming involved and therefore aware of the impact of litter on our seas and on the wider environment and willing to take action to do something about it.
The rest of this briefing discusses the new proposals by considering the extent to which they address core strands of criticism made about the previous structures that supported intergovernmental work in the UK.
Section 81 makes provision for each payment to the equivalent of 26 times the difference between Carer’s Allowance and Jobseeker’s Allowance on the qualifying date.
Retrieved from <a href="https://www.parliament.scot/S5_Bills/Health%20and%20Care%20(Staffing)%20(Scotland)%20Bill/HSS052018R11.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.scot/S5_Bills/Health%20and%20Care%20(Staffing)%20(Scotland)%20Bill/HSS052018R11.pdf</a> [accessed 29 April 2019], recommending that the general principles of the Bill be approved, was published on 26 November 2018. The Cabinet Secretary provided two written responses to the stage 1 report on 5 December and 27 January 2019.
I do not think that we can hold off on introducing new policy or new legislation. Introducing the bill is a really important step forward, and it is vital that some of the changes in it happen now.
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