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In pursuing these themes, the Committee will continue to undertake work in relation to:
The Local Governance Review
The New Deal with local government
Understanding barriers to local elected office
Post-legislative scrutiny of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015
Community Councils
Community Wealth Building
Workforce issues in local government
Visitor Levy (Scotland) Bill
In pursuing this work, the Committee intends to travel to local authorities across Scotland to understand the specific challenges they face and what they need to be in place to deliver for the communities they serve.
Costs to accommodation providers
There are likely to be various costs that accommodation providers will face if their local authority decides to introduce a visitor levy scheme. These are categorised in the FM as either initial set-up costs or ongoing administration costs.
For pre-school children, the named person will usually be a health visitor and for school aged children it will likely be a senior, deputy or head teacher.
Up to 500 sports clubs affiliated with sportscotland,https://sportscotland.org.uk/ the national agency for sports in Scotland, were provided with £100 grants to allow them to provide free period products to their members, participants and visitors. The Scottish Government also confirmed in a Parliamentary Written Question on free provision in NHS Hospital...
I am setting out what we would do in the future. We cannot reverse things that have happened in the past, such as people losing money because their tax credits or their benefits have not increased in line with inflation, but in the future we can ensure that that link is mainta...
We must remember that there are many creditors. Credit unions are a prime example. They have a customer base that contains many vulnerable people from low-income households but, ultimately, a credit union’s finances are there only because of those individuals—it is their money that the credit union is handling.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
14 August 2024
The Chancellor has set out plans to end universal Winter Fuel Payments in England and Wales by restricting it to those receiving Pension Credit and other means tested benefits from this year onwards.
We know that the top 1 per cent of income tax payers in the UK contribute more than 28 per cent of total income tax receipts, which is why maintaining and attracting ever-higher numbers of additional-rate taxpayers is critical to the future prosperity of the Scottish Government’s spending plans.