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The equipment has been provided to people ranging from pre-school children to the elderly, and whose diagnoses include, among many others, cancer, learning difficulties, head injuries and cerebral palsy.
We have not carried out any further analysis.On the indications from some of the pre-election research of some of the problems that might be experienced by voters, I have commented on that already in relation to the parliamentary ballot papers.
In December, the cabinet secretary criticised me when I intervened during his speech in the pre-budget report debate to point to the fact that Scotland was the only part of the UK in which the claimant rate for those registering at Jobcentre Plus was going up.
More accurately, I enjoyed half of Alex Neil's speech. The pre-budget report has provided a £2 billion boost for Scottish families, as James Kelly said.
We will now continue with the meeting. My next question has been pre-empted to an extent. Last week, the committee heard from Shelter, which is concerned that the ground for eviction for rent arrears is too draconian.
The review group found that the assured tenancy system is cumbersome, complex, ambiguous and difficult for many people to understand. There are lots of pre-notice requirements and it is quite easy for a landlord who thinks that they are dealing with a short assured tenancy in fact to be dealing with an assured tenancy, if they have not served the notices in...
Perhaps the Health and Sport Committee might have liked the issue to be in the Health (Tobacco, Nicotine etc and Care) (Scotland) Bill, but this is how we decided to do things. The minister has pre-empted my question. All credit to Stewart Maxwell—everyone knows that the genesis of the smoking ban was his bill.
Again, there might well be cases in which conversion to an MLDT would result in the likelihood of possession being recovered sooner than would have been the case under the pre-existing relationship. However, there will also be cases in which the situation will be the other way round.
The Treasury provided numerous technical briefings to the commission’s members and was the pre-eminent Whitehall department in the process of defining a fiscal policy package that was acceptable from a UK perspective.