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r=11169&c=2035192The Committee recognises the approach that the Scottish Government has taken and its wish to include the purposes of the 8 forms of assistance and rules on benefit eligibility wholly within regulations.
The Scottish Government has invested £800,000 in prison visitor centres. There is also the assisted prison visit scheme, which provides assistance for travel costs, and there is the Sacro service.
What Jeremy Balfour did not say is that the winter heating assistance payment will reach more people and will do so regularly, rather than having to be triggered by the weather.
It is worth reiterating the fact that we have also provided support to local authorities to ensure that there is assistance for local organisations, too.