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The second application is potentially more problematic, as it would apply on an on-going basis to all policy decisions that affect tax receipts or expenditure. Professor Keating has highlighted some concerns about the principle.
Does it extend to any new benefits that we might want to give to vulnerable groups who might be in receipt of, say, income support, which is a means-tested benefit?
A lot of issues end up being about political choices because there is not a clear cut right or wrong answer.Our evidence session with the OBR discussed its methodology paper, which describes how it plans to forecast the proposed Scottish tax receipts. We will discuss the matter with HM Revenue and Customs next month; there is no doubt that data gathering wi...
To ask the Scottish Executive how the Scottish Futures Trust is optimising investment under the Prudential Code using new techniques such as future modelling, tax increment funding and developer contributions.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
2 October 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive which appointments made by ministers since May 2007 have been subject to the Commissioner for Public Appointments in Scotland’s code of practice. All Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments in Scotland (OCPAS) regulated appointments are routinely shown on the Scottish Government website when they commence.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
23 April 2008
It is the practice of successive governments, reflected in the Scottish Ministerial Code and the provisions of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002, that the fact and content of legal advice is not revealed.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
15 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the report of the short-life working group to develop information on women with no recourse to public funds who have experienced domestic abuse will be included in the code of guidance on homelessness. I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-11204 on 15 April 2008.
Given that many low earners are in receipt of means-tested benefits and of housing benefit and council tax benefit, they would effectively only have 15p of any pound.