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It just gives a bit of a boost to women, especially in a list situation, in which there is zipping—it means that the best women are at the top of the list and the best men are at the top of the list. 12:30 We do not have any form of quota.
A number of tools are available to local authorities, and we in ALACHO have been taking that forward and sharing best practice. We are ensuring that we are making best use of those.
In relation to the costing of the original offer, as David Robertson said, you have to go with the best information that you have. That is what we do every year when we come to distribute the funding—we use the best possible data.
It says that the Government’s suggestion “that stopping these emergency provisions would cause confusion is at best spurious and at worst deliberately dishonest”.
Therefore, we asked the Scottish Government to consider how it might best support those sectors to recover, rejuvenate the high street and grow the economy.
It must double the payment now, and again within the year. An increase to £40 a week is the best chance that we have of meeting our interim child poverty target of 18 per cent.