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Responsibility for ensuring benefit and tax credit uptake lies with the UK Government, however the Scottish Government recognises that providing national and local services that support benefit uptake can significantly increase household income.
In its submission, Macmillan Cancer Support refers to:
“some cases early on in Universal Credit rollout of people finding out they may have had less than 6 months to live through their UC journal.”2Macmillan Cancer Support. (2020).
So far, the experience under a Liberal Democrat justice minister, a Labour justice minister and me has been that 26 applications have been made and 26 releases have been granted.
I am minded, in relation to Glasgow, of the Odeon cinema on Renfield Street, where the magnificent façade was preserved and has been incorporated into the much newer building structure that was allowed to be developed on what had been the site of the auditoria of that cinema complex.
Rather than constraining public spending, they are more about giving him some headroom to do that. He has left about £26 billion of additional stimulus that he could use if the economy slows worse than he expects.