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Scottish Child Payment offers financial support to families with children, and is paid as a top-up of certain qualifying reserved benefits, such as Universal Credit. Applicants must also demonstrate child responsibility to meet the qualifying criteria in full.
These issues were rehearsed last week, but I emphasise and reiterate to Douglas Ross that explicit protections for freedom of expression and freedom of speech are, of course, in the bill.
If there is a chance of an effect on a Natura site or a site that is designated a special area of conservation or a special protection area under the habitats directive or wild birds directive—an effect on the ecology of that site or on the species that use it—a habitats regul...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
9 October 2008
There are local liaison committees, on which the Scottish Government is represented at official level, who are involved, with HSE, in off site contingency planning.
SRUC has indicated to the Scottish Government that it now proposes to open a post mortem facility in the Inverness area to replace the Drummond Hill site.
We are aware that the lack of implicit consent in Universal Credit (UC) makes it difficult for MSP’s and advice services to fully support those who are struggling with UC.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what work it has done to determine how split payments for universal credit will be made relative to the elements received, and what the potential employment scenarios for couples were.