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SCOSS was created in response to Parliament’s concerns that were expressed during the passage of the Social Security (Scotland) Bill, about the need for independent scrutiny of the Scottish Government’s social security proposals.
I want to make sure that the people in our society who need assistance are able to get it. The sentiment that John Mason expressed about encountering families who feel that they are being passed from pillar to post is an experience that I have had all too often in my parliamentary life.
When some of the board’s non-executive directors expressed a lack of confidence in the chair and the chief executive, it became clear that something was being done to prop up a failing management team.
They have consistently and fundamentally been ignored by the UK Government, and that strategy was—I believe—at the express wish of the current Prime Minister, and was imposed upon her ministers at every level and every turn.
The campaign was called WLmusic and it invited young people across West Lothian to express what they thought about the service and why they would like to see it saved.
The cabinet secretary will take questions at the end of his statement, so there should be no interventions or interruptions. 15:01 I begin by expressing my sincere condolences to Craig McClelland’s family.
Unfortunately, as we know, retrospective legislation cannot be effected by secondary legislation unless there is a specific expressed power, which, in this case, does not exist.
The initial indication was that it would be on world hepatitis day, but that seems to have wobbled, if that is the correct expression. Okay. I can see a parliamentary question coming.