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The Affordable Housing Investment Programme allocations for 2009-10 were announced at the Chartered Institute of Housing Conference on 10 March in Aberdeen and are available on the Scottish Government website at: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Built-Environment/Housing/investment/ahip/ahip-2009-10/.
Summary statistics onEducation Maintenance Allowances are published annually on the ScottishExecutive website.(a) Academic year 2004-05In 2004-05 23,650 studentswere on the EMA scheme, of those 16,870 attended school and 6,780 were atcollege.
While the Public Guardian is the body that usually reaches decisions under Part 3 of the 2000 Act, the Public Guardian can remit (transfer) an application to the local sheriff court.
The sea that we control, the oil revenues, et cetera—it would be ridiculous, when we have 26 per cent of the EU’s renewables capacity, to say that we would not have a strong hand in renegotiating— So you are saying that we will get everything that we want in that negotiation process.
Yes, but in relation to the cases that Police Scotland deals with, 26 cases will not put a significant resource burden on our approach, even in the context of 255 or 300 reports, as those are spread over a large number of officers.
On the question about whether we just put our finger in the air and say that we will spend 3 per cent or 26 per cent on preventative spend, the answer is that we absolutely do not do that.
No one knows how to solve it, no one has yet broken such a key and no one shows any sign of doing so. 16:26 The debate has been interesting—perhaps much more interesting than many of us had expected when we came into the chamber.
Young drivers are more likely to have cheaper, older cars, which offer them less protection from injury than newer vehicles and are less likely to be fitted with technology that reduces the risk of crashes occurring, such as differential braking, which reduces the loss of control at bends. On 26 October 2010, I wrote to Stewart Stevenson, who was then th...
Under section 13(5), a person commits an offence if they act“with intent to deceive”—so it is not an offence of strict liability; there has to be intention.If we consider the further offences that are set out in schedule 4, subparagraph 26(10) of that schedule—on page 91 of my version of the bill—provides: “It is a defence for a person charged with an offen...
Committee reports
Date published:
20 February 2026
The Minister explained that the Scottish Government “absolutely recognised” the “additional and unique cost of living pressures” in rural areas and highlighted the allocation of £3 billion in the 2025-26 budget to tackle poverty. She also discussed a number of other initiatives under specific policy areas as considered further below.