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A note on passports issued prior to September 2018
UK passports are valid for ten years, but before September 2018, people renewing their passports prior to the expiry date, were granted credit of up to nine months.
Those could provide an opportunity for younger people and women, who were more adversely affected by the recent recession, to get back into the labour market and engage in more meaningful career pathways. 11:15 I want to return to Professor Darby’s point.
*S6M-10523 George Adam on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau: Approval of SSI—That the Parliament agrees that the Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Act 2022 (Amendment of Expiry Date) Regulations 2023 [draft] be approved.
S6W-18416 Jamie Halcro Johnston: To ask the Scottish Government what estimated delivery dates it received from all shipbuilders in relation to its work to establish how quickly it could retender and deliver a vessel as a replacement for vessel 802.
S5W-07598 Mike Rumbles: To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the date the Forth Replacement Crossing will be (a) completed and (b) open to the public, and how this compares with the initial projected date.
I have found that an incredible thing to understand, having travelled from the southern tip of the Western Isles to the northern tip in my very first summer recess, and having travelled to Orkney in that same recess.
My understanding from speaking to the team yesterday is that it is planning on those publications coming out ahead of summer recess. There is quite a difference between summer recess 2025 and autumn 2024—that is nearly a year.
Douglas Lumsden: To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the total cost to date of its Building a New Scotland series of papers.