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Since the Property Factors (Scotland) Act 2011 came into force, the number of complaints has grown, starting at 26 and reaching a record high of 338 in 2023.
In general, people living in poorer areas are more likely to be unhealthy and die earlier. However, the research found that living near parks, woodland or other open spaces helped to reduce those inequalities regardless of people’s social class.
Clearly that is not acceptable, and I do not know whether that is occurring in only a minority of the 7 per cent of questions that are not being substantively answered within the timescale, but it seems to be quite bad practice just to be signposted to a website when as a parliamentarian I had expected an answer at the appropriate time.
A practice has happened recently whereby papers are uploaded through the public website in advance of meetings, but with an attempt to embargo the press from reporting on them.
Those include authorisation being in place and the duty to inquire having already been undertaken; that the person is likely to die imminently; that the decision to withdraw life-sustaining treatment has been taken; and that the pre-death procedure is necessary and is not likely to cause more than minimal discomfort to the person or to harm the person.
You have said that most women can afford period products, but the creation of a universal right is a die-in-a-ditch part of the bill to which you would not accept an amendment.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
5 February 2018
The DWP has been clear that it will transfer to the Scottish Government the money that is spent on community care grants and crisis loans for living expenses in Scotland at the point of transfer, and our ministers have agreed that that money will be used for the same purposes.
The run-up to the 26th conference of the parties—COP 26—has helped that focus. The recent countdown to 26 event, which was run across all the innovation centres and Scottish Enterprise, brought a huge amount of focus to that.