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I cannot add anything on the specific fund, but there is a lot of read across between planning, local place plans and our regeneration programmes, including our place-based investment programme.
It might also be useful to add that, in relation to the technical amendments to short-term assistance, our recommendations that guidance should include more scenarios and that short-term assistance should be monitored were accepted.
The Social Security (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill makes several changes to the devolved social security system, including allowing the Scottish Government to create new benefits for those who have had experience of the care system by providing for Care Experience Assistance, changing processes for decision making on a range of benefits and processes for paying back assistance received by mistake.
The Bill, as passed, sets out broad eligibility criteria for nine types of assistance which are covered by the principles, the charter and provisions to promote take-up.
Persons who can diagnose terminal illness: The Cabinet Secretary stated these amendments: "...allow for an overseas healthcare professional to confirm that their patient meets the terminal illness definition".
Suspension of assistance: Following calls from stakeholders, these amendments will enable the suspension and non-payment of assistance in certain circumstances, allowing for the value of certain types of on-going assistance to be set to zero.
Furthermore, changes to qualifications as a result of the wider programme of education reform, which includes Professor Hayward’s recommendations, will take a number of years to be fully implemented and embedded across our curriculum.
We see a lot of the betting apps being used in sports programmes and on those kinds of platforms, but a targeted-to-women advert is usually about the friendship group and having fun.