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In the words of the First Minister, the aim should be a bill that is“a worthy successor to Donald Dewar’s original”—Official Report, 26 May 2011; c 67. and of which we, on behalf of the people of Scotland, can say, “I like that”.
We need to avoid a situation in which, if we devolve taxes for X, Y and Z, we start having rather difficult and sterile debates around areas of overlap.
In the most recent Scottish social attitudes survey, 26 per cent of people said that they had experienced a mental health problem at some point in their life, 47 per cent said they would not want others knowing if they ran into difficulties and 17 per cent said that they would not want to talk to anyone about it.
Instead of cases being heard at eight weeks, as was originally envisaged, they are running at around 22 to 26 weeks. Given the pressure that there will be on summary sheriffs, we do not see how that situation would be alleviated.
Such a price would have a bigger impact than a price of 50p or 55p, which might be the level that is struck. However, 26 per cent of the trade is own label, so the companies in that sector of the market would be hit straight away.
Ofcom’s research shows that mobile-only households are more likely to be poor—26 per cent of DE households are entirely dependent on mobiles, compared with only 9 per cent of ABC1 homes.I want to consider the old-fashioned technology that we now call 2G, which provides a basic voice and text service and has been around since the days when mobiles looked lik...
The Liberal Democrats, like the Liberals before them, of course are historically home rulers, but the Campbell commission report said nothing about welfare, and paragraph 26 called for the Barnett formula to be scrapped.
What she did not say and what that document does not say at the beginning—it says this only tucked away in a box halfway through, on page 26—is that every single scenario in the document relies on scenario 4 of the Scottish Government’s oil and gas projections.