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Underpinning all these approaches is our commitment to Getting it Right For Every Child and to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Every member should ask Mr McEwan for a meeting. He does not want to get out of his bunker. 13:26 I congratulate Kate Forbes on securing the debate and on her excellent speech.
There are many difficult conversations already happening, but politics often gets in the way of them. Is it fair, for example, that we get free prescriptions?
(S6O-04637) The recent earnings limit increase for 2025-26, from £151 to £196 a week, means that carers in Scotland can earn £45 more per week and still get the carer support payment.
The 2026-27 Budget identified increased spending on measures targeted at ‘tackling child poverty’, growing from just under £60 million in 2025-26 to £163 million in 2026-27 to support the upcoming third plan in 2026.
The SFC forecast that this increase will raise £32 million in additional revenue in 2025-26, after taking account of spillover effects on residential LBTT.
The DPLR Committee, however, agreed to draw to the attention of the Criminal Justice Committee that the draft instrument would have the following effects:
The Explanatory Note and Policy Note state that the first group of prisoners will be released between 26 and 27 June, but the draft instrument does not provide that 26 June is the earliest permitted release date.