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Scottish Child Payment (Renfrewshire North and West) To ask the Scottish Government how many families in the Renfrewshire North and West constituency it estimates will receive support from the roll-out of the Scottish child payment. (S6O-00032) Using the latest available forecasts based on take-up assumptions for the payment that were published by the Scot...
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Correspondence from the Cabinet Secretary to the Convener, 23 April 2020
Dear Gillian
Further to my letter of 1 April, I am pleased to enclose answers to the remaining questions regarding the Deposit and Return Scheme for Scotland Regulations 2020 as set out in your letter of 26 March. I look forward to discussing the Regulations with the Committe...
Care homes are embargoed because of poor Care Inspectorate reports. I visited a new care home in Ross-shire last week and was told that it gets three inquiries a day for people to go there.
As the Scottish Government set out in our Memorandum, it is a matter of concern that there is such a degree of overlap between the proposed new offence and the existing offence in RRA.
As a training provider that has worked with Scottish Government historically to implement new products we are already producing a burial suit of products that will meet the needs of the new legislation and envisage this could be a delivered via in person or on line to allow swift implementation.
These are: • A prohibition on providing or making available fireworks or pyrotechnic articles to children; • A new statutory aggravation for courts sentencing offenders where fireworks were used to attack emergency workers; • New discretionary powers for local authorities to designate firework control zones; and • New offences of possession of pyrotechnics in public places and at designated venues and events.