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I met the Communication Workers Union this morning and Police Scotland on Thursday, and I have met the National Dog Warden Association. I have also instructed officials to undertake regional engagements with local stakeholders to look at ways for partners to work together to improve operational responses and enforcement and to aid community engagement to he...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
1 October 2019
The new first-time buyers scheme will provide first time buyers with up to £25,000 towards the deposit for a property to support people to buy a home that meets their needs. The scheme is open to all first-time buyers in Scotland.
Each of them took out the funeral policy and paid into it in good faith—many for more than 20 years—so that they could die with the dignity of knowing that their families would not face huge bills.
We will publish a summary of the discussions on our website in due course. I record our thanks to Douglas Lumsden for all his hard work in supporting the committee’s scrutiny.
Perhaps, Presiding Officer, you can advise me on how I might correct the record and on what training is available for members to avail themselves of that data on the website of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and ensure that such mistakes are not made again.
Constituents are reporting errors in their vaccination records, which are held on the NHS Scotland website. Wrongly logged dates and incorrect vaccine types are being flagged, and the only way to resolve those issues is to sit in a very long telephone queue.
On the issue of testing, I repeat that our advice to the whole population—not just people who attend a particular event—is for people to order lateral flow device tests for free through the NHS inform website and test themselves twice a week so that it can be identified whether they have the virus without symptoms.
His mother found a video that he had posted on TikTok, in which he asked whether anyone felt like they wanted to die because they were so different. Charlie’s mum told CAMHS, but they said that it would make no difference to his waiting time.