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It is an equivalent payment of £10 a week to families with eligible children who are in receipt of low-income benefits. As a Government, we are determined to increase uptake, for example by ensuring that we write to every eligible family for which we have contact details.
Eighty five per cent of the fiscal gap that is disclosed in the GERS figures is represented not by lower tax receipts in Scotland, but by higher spending.
The committee therefore recommended the introduction of a set time for Police Scotland and the SPA to acknowledge receipt of complaints and inform officers who are the subject of complaints, and for witnesses to be interviewed following receipt of a complaint.
I note that COSLA released the strongly worded statement that the “Scottish Government has yet to demonstrate the Bill will improve outcomes for people in receipt of care and for social care staff.”
A bill of the Scottish Parliament is passed when it is approved at the end of stage 3; it does not come into effect until receipt of royal assent—that is, enactment.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
10 November 2008
It is certainly the perspective of the learners on the panels that it has often been the case that the SQA senior management have been the only people in receipt of their advice, which they have often disregarded.