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Perhaps it would be better for the Parliament to have an interface on its website for doing such things, rather than people having to rely on individual MSPs’ social media and websites for information, because the quality of that information can be highly variable.
(S4O-00402) We have introduced a waiting time target that means that by March 2013, no one will wait longer than 26 weeks from referral to treatment for specialist child and adolescent mental health services.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
14 November 2012
Officials meet regularly with the Scottish Refugee Council and discuss the range of issues relating to asylum seekers and refugees, including the transfer of contract for accommodation and transport services.
They also have a risk of longevity; they do not know when they are going to die, so they always feel that they need to keep back some money so that they do not run out of their lump sum before their actual date of death rather than predicted date of death.
Claire Baker was right to interrogate that issue. Is the flipside of the coin not that it would derisk the private rented sector and make landlords more confident about having people on benefits or low incomes in their sector?