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Generally, accommodation costs would be the most vulnerable to a change in date, with a lower exposure for staffing costs being ‘wasted’ in relation to a cancelled poll.
We need that clear action from the UK Government because it has the levers. Before recess, I raised the fact that, in Scotland today, 8,635 children are in temporary accommodation.
According to the front page of, I think, the Financial Times, the recession will potentially be the worst since the frost fair of 1709, an event at which neither I nor Beatrice Wishart was present.
I cannot believe that the member has managed to miss the financial crash, the recession and the austerity that has happened over that time, but if he wants to talk about economic performance, let us talk about economic performance.
(S5O-02048) The Scottish Government is committed to introducing a workable soft opt-out system that will add to the improvements that have already been delivered, and legislation to provide for such a system will be introduced before the summer recess. It is important that we take the time to get the system right.
I ask the minister why she is threatening to drop the scheme 10 months before the start date. Why not 10 months before the last date or 10 months before the date before that, or before the date before that?
Our intention is to announce further details on the VSF, following the summer Parliamentary recess. In the meantime, we are providing £17.9 million in 2018-19, to third sector organisations whose work supports victims of crime.