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Collectively, they employ more than half a million staff. The recent news that John Lewis has joined the scheme is great, and I expect other large companies to follow.
There is less than a year and a half for the Government to put in place its plans for the new entitlement. To my mind, the best approach would be to have the experts and the people with lived experience design the new benefit from the get-go.
Thank you for inviting me here to talk about the latest regulations that we are bringing forward under the Fuel Poverty (Targets, Definition and Strategy) (Scotland) Act 2019.
Our front-line workers have worked extremely hard to ensure that services and access could be restored as quickly as possible. The latest updates are that good progress has been made on the restoration of the transport network.
Data obtained through freedom of information requests shows that just one in five dental practices are taking on new patients and that, in four health board areas in Scotland, zero practices are taking on new NHS patients.
Because of the way things are going with council budgets, there is a fight for what we need; a new allotment site might cost £100,000, but a new school will take precedence over a new allotment site.