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The other issue to do with legalities that I was interested in relates to Live Borders. I think that you are saying that there are no local people from the burgh on Live Borders.
A lot of people outside this Government have put a lot of work in over many years to calculate what the real living wage should be, and it is calculated very deliberately according to the basic cost of living.
Does the First Minister support the living wage? Not only do we support the living wage but, of course, we introduced the living wage across the Government-controlled public sector in Scotland.
It is estimated that graduates earn around £100,000 more over the course of their working lives than those who do not go to university, and it is all taxable, so it is axiomatic that graduates will pay more over their entire working lives.
We understand that, since 2005, there have been 506 applications on behalf of witnesses to give evidence by TV link. Since April 2005, there have been 149 applications to enable witnesses to give evidence via a liveTV link from a remote site.
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The Committee welcomes the revised definition of fuel poverty set out in the Bill, based around the calculation of a Minimum Income Standard that takes account of daily living costs. This should help ensure a closer linkage to actual "lived" income poverty.
Committee reports
Date published:
28 September 2022
In short, by comparison with those not in poverty, the impact on those already living in poverty is substantially greater:
Then, we have the cost of living crisis.