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The most disadvantaged areas are defined by the latest Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD), which identifies the 20% most deprived postcode areas in Scotland.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
27 April 2023
We are pleased that housebuilding completions in the latest year to end September 2022 are at their highest annual rate since 2008, up 10% on the previous year, to 22,905 homes.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
7 December 2022
On 17 October 2022, SCTS published their latest quarterly fines report. This report is an official statistics publication and uses a rolling three year collection rate which reflects that fines and financial penalties, by their nature, require time to pay.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
2 December 2022
This shows £4,463,069.51 expenditure, 4,003 grants and 1,298 refusals. The latest set of full available data, broken down by local authority, is the Tenant Grant Fund monitoring report: January 2022 , which was published in March 2022.
However, in Scotland, “the commissioner needs to have clear investigative power, so that it is not only about promotion”.2Scottish Parliament. (2025, December 19).
Help to promote the Independent Living Fund (ILF) Scotland's Transition Fund, to ensure that young people with learning disabilities are aware of and encouraged to access support to enhance their independent living, including access to further education and employment.
Study participants were rather of the view that integration needs to be promoted as a process of opportunity and empowerment in order to achieve one's full potential rather than in terms of compulsion.