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Currently, 1.4 million people are displaced within the Gaza strip. We know that many Palestinians will wish to stay in their homeland; they must be supported to do so with urgent humanitarian aid.
Indeed, I am pretty sure that that is what the petitioner and many others would want us to do. We should certainly ask for a breakdown of what other actions are planned.
Community-led housing plays an important role in our broad approach to deliver more affordable homes in our rural and island areas. Many communities actively engage in pursuing projects in their own local areas, often supported by the rural and islands housing fund.
Our system vigorously promotes benefit take-up to ensure that as many people as possible get what they are entitled to, while, of course, mitigating the austerity impact of United Kingdom Government policies, within our fixed budgets.
I will go back to what Jonathan Carr-West said on “Good Morning Scotland” this morning: “I don’t want to minimise for Scottish councils” or for “many of our members in Scotland who are feeling the pinch a bit now and are having to make tougher decisions than hitherto, but they are starting in a much more comfortable place than English local authorities t...
(S6O-02414) As our progress report, which was published last week, shows, our focus on tackling child poverty is unequivocal and making a significant difference. However, still too many children live in poverty in Scotland.
However, Brexit is the issue that is most often cited to me as one of the key causes of why many sectors face labour shortages and of the hurdles that people overseas have to jump over to come and work in Scotland, even when they have an employer who is willing to employ them.