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To ask the Scottish Government how it is working with the Department for Work and Pensions to assess demand in Scotland for Universal Credit app-based services. I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-06233 on 25 February 2022 .
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
25 February 2022
The bill says that there should be a right to respite care for carers, for example. We would like the bill to express equally clearly that people in care homes have the right to have visitors and to go out of their care home.
It said that there should be a precautionary approach to applications for new sites and the expansion of existing sites; that there is a need to locate new farms in more suitable areas, away from wild salmon migratory routes; that there should be a more strategic approach to identifying areas across Scotland that are either suitable or unsuitable for the siting of salmon farms; and that work should be done to move existing poorly sited farms to suitable sites.
The habitats regulations, which are basically the best protections that we have for our best wildlife sites and our vulnerable species, also include the environmental assessment of plans and projects that could affect those important wildlife sites.
Whenever I talk about this, I am careful to express a lot of sympathy with the drafters, because I used to be a drafter and to be responsible for drafters.