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Today, CHAP provides six service streams, employs 26 dedicated staff in its modern Ardrossan premises, and, as its most recent annual report shows, achieves a highly impressive 98 per cent client satisfaction rate.
The licensing system implements the Group’s recommendation that mandatory conditions should be introduced at the point of sale of fireworks to ensure that the purchase and use of fireworks is a well thought out and planned transaction.
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I did not find it more difficult to make an assessment of the performance, capability, et cetera.5House of Lords Constitution Commitee, UK Parliament. (2023, April 26). Inquiry into senior civil servants appointments and dismissals.
I have mentioned a couple of times today the investment that we have made and the number of households that that has helped, but it is also worth putting on the record that, so far in 2025-26, the average fuel bill savings across all the completed applications to our loan and grant scheme are approximately £350 a year.
The following paragraphs refer to the subsections of new section 2B. 26. Subsection (1) provides that, in the 2009 Act, the “target-setting criteria” are the matters mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (k) of that subsection.
As we take those constructive discussions forward, we in Labour would ask the cabinet secretary to reflect on the conduct of the SQA during the past year. The latest delays show, frankly, a level of contempt for parents, pupils and teachers across Scotland who are having to deal with the situation.
Over the last decade several housing associations have been taken over, and Reidvale is just the latest. We have a regulatory system that applies the same standards to the Wheatley group with 50,000+ homes, as it does to a co- operative with a few hundred homes.
We publish this series 4 in Supplementary Figure S3.5. We used the latest available publication of the Scottish Government’s Public Sector Employment statistics – which, at the time of closing our forecast on 27 November 2023, was up to and including the second quarter of 2023 – and we projected this forward based on the funding and pay growth projections.