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I was pleased that, earlier this month, the First Minister announced that an additional £6 million will be allocated to children’s services planning partnerships as part of the 2025-26 budget. That increase means that the share of the whole family wellbeing funding that is provided to children’s services planning partnerships will rise from £32 million to £38 million in the 2025-26 and 2026-27 financial years.
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During our fact-finding visit to Lithuania, we heard about the country’s simplified approach to taxation, with income tax ranging from 26% to 32%, not dissimilar to the approach we previously explored in Estonia where there is a flat 22% tax on individual income.
At the age of 16, disabled people have the same aspirations as their non-disabled peers, but by the time that they reach the age of 26, they believe that nothing that they can do will change their life.
Finance and Constitution Committee meetings so far:
19 August 2020 - session with Scottish Government officials
26 August 2020 - session with law academics and practitioners.
Through our cross-policy working on the “New Scots Refugee Integration Strategy Delivery Plan 2024-26”, we are taking account of intersectional approaches to gender equality, including engaging new Scots in the delivery of Scotland’s equally safe strategy and the wider work on violence against women and girls to ensure that the needs of new Scots are addressed.
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S5W-30924 Edward Mountain: To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-30426 by Humza Yousaf on 21 July 2020, what the maximum capacity of HMP Inverness is when adhering to the latest advice on social-distancing measures.