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When I attended the committee on 9 December, I reported that the early learning and childcare programme joint delivery board had recommended a new 1,140 hours delivery date of August 2021. Following careful consideration and agreement to that recommendation by the Scottish ministers and Convention of Scottish Local Authorities leaders, I confirmed that date to Parliament on 14 December.
Amongst these campaign recognisers 88% claimed to have taken an action after seeing the campaign (e.g. 33% talking to friends and family, 33% researching visiting or going to Scotland on holiday and 28% talking to other people).
People can also be assured that all payments are backdated to the date of application. The average processing time for applications has, in fact, increased every month since the adult disability payment was launched, from 45 working days in September 2022 to 96 working days in April 2023.
—Official Report, Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee, 9 November 2022; c 16. That is worth noting as a potential action that we can recommend.
Although most cases have presented since March, one child was admitted to hospital in early January 2022. Cases have also been detected in other parts of the United Kingdom.
The only growth industry that I see just now as a result of UK Government policy is food banks. Even some Tory politicians have the temerity to attend and celebrate the opening of a food bank.
We said at the time that the completion date would be spring 2018. The contractor, in a competitive bidding process, came back with an earlier finish overall and with staged completion dates.