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Throughout Scotland, relatively few people, proportionately, are in receipt of direct payments. The figure is somewhere between 3,500 and 4,000 people.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 March 2011
Lobbying of members of the Scottish Parliament is a matter for the Parliament itself to regulate. The Code of Conduct for MSPs defines the standards to which MSPs are expected to adhere.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
16 March 2009
(Foreword by the Cabinet Secretary). The code then goes on to set out ministers'' expectations about the way that the Scottish Housing Regulator will exercise the powers contained within the 2001 act.
The specific role and duties of special advisers is set out in the Code of Conduct for Special Advisers at Schedule 1 of the Model Contract for Special Advisers which is available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 37226).
People who are paid the living wage are taken up to a more adequate level of household income. Many people who are not in receipt of the living wage work in the retail sector, and are also living in some of our poorest accommodation.
Many hundreds of organisations are in receipt of public money from Creative Scotland; I wonder whether the minister shares my deep concern that such organisations are not paying their staff the living wage.
The fact of digital exclusion and the implications that it has for the receipt of benefits to which people are entitled have been the subject of discussion at the Welfare Reform Committee.
We are working very closely with the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities, local authorities and others to ensure that there is awareness of the scheme and consistency.Clearly, people having to show receipts for shopping is not in the guidance from the Scottish Government.
The Sunbed Association might be better placed to answer, because its members are some of the trade, but I imagine that it would always recommend a like-for-like replacement as supplied. The Sunbed Association's code of practice includes a manufacturing code as well as an operation code.