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Given that work has started on preparing the site, can the cabinet secretary facilitate a site visit for my colleague David Torrance and me to explore the progress that has been made thus far in securing the return of Leven’s rail link?
We are fully committed to using a co-management process in the future. It is vital that our future catching policy is future proofed and is led by the best robust scientific evidence, in order to deliver sustainability.
Universal Credit The next item of business is a members’ business debate on motion S5M-07056, in the name of Alex Rowley, on support for Citizens Advice Scotland’s call to stop the accelerated roll-out of universal credit.
Its purpose is to give direct, one-to-one health visitor assistance to teen mums. That is really what health visiting should have been about for a long time, but we have tended to turn our health visitors into clerks with enormous case loads.Our health visitors help the mums f...
Universal Credit Roll-out To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government’s response is to reports that the United Kingdom Government plans to halt the full roll-out of universal credit.
Universal Credit (Impact of Income Tax Starter Rate) To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to ensure that people do not lose universal credit because of the starter rate of income tax.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
18 September 2012
The land covered by those applications continues to be managed by Forestry Commission Scotland (FCS) and therefore, eligible community organisations still have the opportunity to apply under the Scheme to buy or lease them.
It involves dialogue and cooperation at local level to define the landscape, set objectives for its future and take action to achieve those objectives.