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Our Child Poverty Strategy for Scotland expresses our commitment to focus on the need to tackle the long-term drivers of poverty, through early intervention and prevention, partnership and holistic services.
SNH have informed the Scottish Government that they continue to have concerns about the potential for impacts on the Loch of Stenness Special Area of Conservation arising from approval of the revised Ballast Water Management Policy. SNH have expressed the view that, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, at this time it cannot be ascertained beyond rea...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
12 September 2013
Consent does not need to be obtained in relation to the removal or retention of organs or tissue in respect of post mortems instructed by the Procurator Fiscal, families should be informed about the retention of organs unless they have indicated a wish not to be told, and should be given the opportunity to express their wishes in respect of next steps once ...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
5 February 2013
Data for the first year of four years of CERT (up to March 2012) for professionally installed loft and cavity wall insulation was published as official statistics by the Energy Saving Trust in August 2012. The Committee expressed a desire that Energy Company Obligation (ECO) reporting would provide robust and relevant information demonstrating that Scotland...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
10 November 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many domestic properties can reach or exceed an Energy Performance Certificate rating (a) A, (b) B, (c) C, (d) D, (e) E and (f) F, also expressed as a percentage of all properties.
That is absolutely fine, but there is a concern— You have taken us on to talking about small producers— The fruit and veg producers were the stakeholders who got in touch with us to express their concern about being shut out of that £3 million funding pot.
On the point about reasonable steps, and more broadly, in the context of councils’ duty on homelessness prevention, some concern has been expressed about the lack of detail in the bill as to what would constitute meeting that duty.
Are we simply putting into primary legislation something that will ultimately be very difficult to enforce? Police Scotland has expressed concerns about any enforcement regime that is associated with the bill, given the nature of social media and so forth.
However, as my amendment notes, specific concerns have been expressed by charities and organisations about the housing issues that are faced by many displaced Ukrainians—and Scots—who, currently, are placed in temporary accommodation.