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The Scottish Government has already strengthened the protection for tenants in Scotland against eviction for rent arrears. From 1 August 2012 we brought pre-action requirements for rent arrears into force to ensure that eviction is a last resort.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
16 November 2012
Data derived from the child health pre-school information system show that there were 58,413 children born in 2011 who were registered on the system as at August 2012.
To help achieve our target for 500 MW of community and locally owned renewables by 2020, we will continue to provide the Community and Renewable Energy Scheme (CARES) loan scheme which provides finance at the high risk pre-planning stage, and which has a budget of 23.5 million over the next three years.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
7 December 2011
This government’s policy on the location of public sector jobs was set out for the Parliament in evidence to the Finance Committee on 29 January 2008. Following criticism of the policy pre-2007 as set out by the Auditor General for Scotland as well as by the Parliament’s Audit Committee and Finance Committee, the incoming government decided to refocus this ...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
11 August 2011
The Community and Renewable Energy Scheme provides loans of up to £150,000 to farmers, land managers, rural businesses, cooperatives and communities to help meet the pre-planning consent costs of developing a proposal.
If amendment 148 is agreed to, it will pre-empt amendments 57 and 58. I know that the group looks long and members are dashing off for coffee, but I will not say very much on the group, so they should not go too far.
In recognising the impact of the pandemic on women, we must also recognise that the pre-pandemic 2019 employment gap figures showed that the minority ethnic employment gap was much higher for women than for men.
With little prospect of nightclubs opening any time soon—at least, not in their pre-Covid form—here is yet another whole industry that can be supported by simply continuing the furlough scheme.
The most recent uptake figures show that only 2.5 per cent of pre-school children have received a flu vaccine compared to 18.6 per cent at the same point last year.