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Meanwhile, 60 per cent of the world’s supply of cobalt, which is used in batteries, comes from the Democratic Republic of Congo, where men, women, and children as young as six work and die in unspeakable conditions to mine it for 50p a day.
I seek clarification on the crofting community right to buy. Is the cabinet secretary saying that a person would get only partial relief for one property but full relief for more than one property?
As you know, in “Homes Fit for the 21st Century” we made a number of commitments, including further reform of the right to buy, which will require additional legislation.
Something being published on a remote, obscure website and then republished years later—say, by a national newspaper—could be quite a strong set of circumstances for the one-year limit to be disapplied.
In a collision, if you are not wearing a seatbelt, you are more likely to die. Well over 20 per cent of people who die on our roads were not wearing a seatbelt.
That is more than all the people who die in road accidents. If we consider the wider issue, we see that deaths from air pollution are in the top two of avoidable deaths worldwide.
Many students may have lost part-time jobs or other means of income, which will reinforce their hardship. On top of the £5.5 million that we have already announced, we are looking for further opportunities to support our students at this time.