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(S5O-03421) Social Security Scotland was established on 1 September 2018 and the majority of its workforce have been recruited since that date. The data that was used to determine the median disability gap is from December 2018 and is based on voluntary self-declaration.
Many of them are still contributing today, as unpaid carers, yet too many of them are forced to choose between heating and eating. The First Minister’s target date for ending fuel poverty was 2016; now, it is 2040.
In her most recent submission, which is dated 3 June, the petitioner provides further historical context, referring to trials, chief medical officer circulars, published papers and MMR working group minutes over the period from 1987 to 1989.
(S5O-03110) The opening budget deficit dating from the establishment of the integration joint board in 2016-17 is now reduced to just under £9 million.
The first progress report on child poverty, which will be published in the summer, will set out the progress that we have made on the agenda to date. I know that social landlords understand the importance of keeping rents affordable and meeting the needs of the people they serve.
I am very happy to keep individual members up to date on the relevant propositions that come from boards in their area and which are approved by the operating board that I mentioned.
I reiterate that, in the absence of the digital Scotland superfast broadband programme, the islands would have zero superfast broadband coverage, so we have achieved a lot to date.
However, we have been frustrated by the quality of that engagement to date. There have been 11 meetings of the joint ministerial committee on European Union negotiations—including one on domestic issues, including frameworks—four meetings of the ministerial forum and three meetings of the JMC plenary.
A revised delivery programme has been discussed by Ferguson Marine and CMAL and Parliament was informed of the dates on 16 August 2018. In recognition of the importance of the issue, the Government has invested in ferries, as I have said, and in harbour facilities across routes in the area.
The cabinet secretary will be aware that babies will be born before 1 April who will still be in hospital after that date. Will she give an assurance that parents of those babies will be able to access the fund?