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However, we also know the challenges that disabled people face, and we cannot get away from the fact that their plight is getting worse, with austerity continuing on top of everything. As I have mentioned, the cuts to the winter fuel payment are going to have a huge impact.
The financial year is extremely challenging—it is the most challenging environment for a budget since devolution. On top of United Kingdom Government underinvestment for more than a decade, our Barnett funding, which is driven by UK Government spending choices, has fallen by 1.2 per cent in real terms since the 2022-23 budget was presented.
My view has always been that, given the urgency, the important thing was to move forward and to get to a position of having top-class population statistics for Scotland available in the spring of next year.
A recent Land Court case said that you can assign the share separately, so you can separate it off. When you buy your croft, you are not entitled to buy your share in it because it makes it a separate croft.
I know about some of the work that other colleagues across Government have done to invest in and ensure that we have the right content on the Parent Club website. It is a question of how we reach more parents and more adults who are involved in ensuring that our children are safeguarded and well.
From the time that we are born until the time that we die, we, or someone on our behalf, tells the world who we are, where we live, what we earn, and what name, what faith and what national identity we recognise as our own.