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Engaging and sustainable reward and recognition arrangements
We implemented a progressive pay award for 2024/25 and 2025/26 which ensured that staff on the lowest grades received a higher percentage pay increase.
The Co-operative Group noted that recent data from the Centre for Social Justice suggests that the average sentence served by offenders who are prosecuted is 26 days.iThe Scottish Co-operative Party, written evidence
The Law Society of Scotland disputed this.
One of the interesting things that the committee might want to examine is resource transfer from the health service to local authorities, which is about £350 million and bigger than the change fund.
We heard that during the pandemic, the Government worked with telecommunications businesses to provide access to certain websites without using data. We ask the Scottish Government to work with the UK Government and stakeholders to consider if this model could be developed to allow access to trusted money advice websites.
meetingId=15773 [accessed 24 March 2024], amendment 25 was not moved.Amendment 26, in the name of Paul O'Kane MSP, would require the Scottish Government to bring forward inflation-related increases to the minimum sum protected from being seized by creditors in a bank account.Amendment 26 was disagreed to by division....
Committee reports
Date published:
21 February 2022
The review was due to complete and make recommendations by September 2021.2Public Audit and Post-legislative Scrutiny Committee. (2021, February 26). Letter from Paul Johnston, Director-General Education, Communities and Justice.
As part of the first Benefit Take-up Strategy, we launched the £600k Benefit Take-up and Income Maximisation Funds. These funds have allowed 26 third sector organisations to provide support to a wide range of seldom-heard and marginalised groups to access their social security entitlements.