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To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had regarding the introduction of a legal age to buy spray paint. Under the Antisocial Behaviour etc.
As has been said, the latest figures show that 79 per cent of all recorded domestic abuse incidents in 2014-15 involved a male perpetrator and a female victim.
For businesses and workers—even entire industries—in just over a day’s time there will be new barriers, new frictions, bundles of new paperwork and new costs that will be damaging.
In addition, welfare rights officers, whose time is invaluable for dealing with the increasing demand for services, must now go out for that second visit as well. Unfortunately, that system has been replicated by the new Scottish social security agency.
In our written response to the Minister of 26 January, we specifically expressed our disappointment that the fee increase would not come in until September.
The Scottish Government is currently providing the full funding requested by local authorities to run their inter-island and internal ferry services in 2025-26, which is around £50 million, and increase of 19.4% from last year.
Details of road maintenance allocations to individual councils for financial year 2025-26 can be found on page 40 of the current Scottish Local Government Finance ‘Green Book’.