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She attended almost all the meetings and certainly made a huge effort to get out to all the islands during the islands visits and to attend all the videoconferencing that we did last year.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
21 March 2011
The First Minister gave examples, and I welcome them, but they were announced before we had a cost of living crisis. We can shout about the new powers that we want, but let us use the powers that we have to change people’s lives in the here and now.
Child Welfare Hearings (PE1631) Agenda item 2 is new petitions. The first new petition that we will consider is PE1631, by Maureen McVey, on child welfare hearings.
It complements a separate briefing looking at the economic policy landscape in Scotland.
As well as presenting the latest headline statistics, this subject profile also sets out some of the structural longer-term features of the Scottish economy.
This is broken down by:
Contingency accommodation – hotels
Dispersed accommodation – longer term housing
Subsistence only – where an asylum seeker lives with a friend or family member
The latest available data is for year ending June 2023.
In other words, all the temporary justice measures in the Bill (which are described from this point on in our report) are time-limited to 30 November 2025 at the latest.