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The Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, who is not in the Parliament today, was not even in Scotland to respond to the latest shocking figures; he was on his second trip to Japan.
Yesterday’s Public Health Scotland statistics revealed that A and E departments continue to struggle. The latest monthly figures showed that 13,000 people waited more than eight hours to be seen, and 5,000 of them waited more than 12 hours.
As it is paid every six months, this is multiplied by 26.
CAS = (uprated JSA weekly amount - Carer's Allowance weekly amount) X 26 weeks
This gives a CAS of £231.40 for 2021-22.
Members may wish to note that those rates match the United Kingdom landfill tax rates for the 2025-26 financial year, as confirmed in the October 2024 UK budget.
The information that is currently available—as I said, it may all change—is that capital will be lowered in nominal terms in 2026-27 compared to 2025-26, which could amount to a 2.5 per cent real-terms cut.
Paragraph (a) of section 2 preserves 2022-23 as a year of revaluation, but the effect of paragraph (b) is that the following year of revaluation will be three years later (that is, 2025-26). Section 3 – New or improved properties: mark in valuation roll 14.