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To ask the Scottish Executive how many householders have been offered benefit and tax credit checks and advice on low-cost energy tariffs since the launch of the Energy Assistance Package.
What are your views on the advantages and disadvantages of carbon budgets / targets being expressed as a percentage reduction or as absolute levels of emissions?
The minister confirmed that 147 children have been identified for clinical review, that 26 children had a missed diagnosis and that 31 had been recalled.
The £20 a week—or £1,040 a year—cut to universal credit and working tax credit will impact more than 400,000 Scots households, of which more than 20,000 have a recognised unpaid carer.
To ensure that more kinship carers will be eligible, the tests for responsibility for a child include receipt of child tax credits, the child element of universal credit or child benefit for that child.
This is particularly important as public sector pay accounts for 55 per cent of the entire resource budget in 2025-26. In late 2024 the Scottish Government set a multi-year pay framework covering 2025-26 to 2027-28.
This is particularly important as public sector pay accounts for 55 per cent of the entire resource budget in 2025-26. In late 2024 the Scottish Government set a multi-year pay framework covering 2025-26 to 2027-28.