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While there are no plans to re-convene the stakeholder group, the representatives will have a further opportunity to comment on the draft guidance ahead of its publication and agree the date for publication. S4W-20970
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
11 April 2013
This is due to be published in November 2013. The dates of all Scottish Government Official and National Statistics publications are pre-announced, and the up to date list of future publications can be found at: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Search/Forthcoming.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
19 March 2013
The Scottish Government will conduct a consultation on the guidance in Spring 2013. The target date for publication of the final version of the guidance will be determined in due course however it will be published prior to the commencement date for the 2013 Act.
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S4W-04421 by Michael Russell on 16 December 2011, when the Student Awards Agency for Scotland became up-to-date with the processing of applications for 2011-12.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
9 November 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason the compulsory date for residential childcare workers to register with the Scottish Social Services Council was set at 30 September 2009.
In a previous answer to the convener, you outlined the extensive level of engagement with customers and the academic research that the forum commissioned on, for example, the recession’s impact on household incomes.
For instance, we raise the highly unpopular prospect that committees might start meeting during recesses. If the workload is greater and nobody is prepared to increase the number of MSPs to increase the number of possible committees, perhaps committee meetings during recesses should be considered.
The textiles industry in the Borders has been hit hard in the recession and some companies have closed, but those that we still have are rising to the challenge of building new markets and creating new, high-end products.