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To ask the Scottish Government how the latest economic inactivity rate in Scotland of 22.7% compares with the latest available rates in ITL 1 statistical regions of England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and with all other 37 member states of the Organisation for Economic Co operation and Development (OECD).
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
27 September 2023
The most disadvantaged areas are defined by the latest Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD), which identifies the 20% most deprived postcode areas in Scotland.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
27 April 2023
We are pleased that housebuilding completions in the latest year to end September 2022 are at their highest annual rate since 2008, up 10% on the previous year, to 22,905 homes.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
7 December 2022
On 17 October 2022, SCTS published their latest quarterly fines report. This report is an official statistics publication and uses a rolling three year collection rate which reflects that fines and financial penalties, by their nature, require time to pay.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
2 December 2022
This shows £4,463,069.51 expenditure, 4,003 grants and 1,298 refusals. The latest set of full available data, broken down by local authority, is the Tenant Grant Fund monitoring report: January 2022 , which was published in March 2022.
There is on-going monitoring of centres as part of our quality assurance and verification processes. We also build into any new centre that is approved a centre operating agreement, which reflects the latest in legislation.
Social Security (Scotland) Bill 9 Part 2—Giving of assistance by Scottish Ministers Chapter 3—Determining entitlement 24 Duty to re-determine (1) On being requested under section 23 to re-determine an individual’s entitlement to a particular type of assistance, the Scottish Ministers are to make a determination of the individual’s entitlement to that type of assistance. 5 (2) The Scottish Ministers must aim to make the determination within the period allowed for re-determination. (3) If the Scottish Ministers fail to make the determination within the period allowed for re- determination— (a) their duty to make the determination ends (but they may still make it), and 10 (b) section 26...