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To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the announcement in its draft Budget2025-26 that it plans to mitigate the UK Government’s two-child benefit cappolicy in Scotland, what it estimates the cost will be of doing so, peraffected child.
This is certainly something that has been borne out on my visits to a range of outdoor centres. A key consideration is that the costings below, whichever approach were to be adopted, would by no means be entirely new spend.
I can go into considerable detail if required as to how this transfer without notice to the consumer debtors is safely achieved so far as the assignee or buying creditor is concerned but will content myself here with the briefest of explanations.
We simply cannot allow the wealthy to continue buying up land to avoid paying tax. Stopping that tax dodge should reduce the price of land, which would allow more new entrants into the farming sector.
The bulk of the money still goes through PEF, but there is also the strategic equity fund, which comes to just over £2 million for us [£2.5m by 2025-26]. We will be able to redirect that resource to more concerted activity around the 124 primary schools and, indeed, across our 20 secondary schools as well.
Committee reports
Date published:
23 February 2021
The Rule changes were agreed "for the duration of the public response to the Novel Coronavirus COVID-19" with an initial period from 17 March up to and including 26 June, and then further periods "determined by the Presiding Officer from time to time following consultation with the Bureau."