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If the agency agreement was that the compensator still reports in exactly the same way that it does now to the DWP, absolutely nothing extra need be done from the compensator side.
Gender balance on a board is an important question, but it is an extra question to which many supplies would respond, “How is that relevant to whether or not I can provide this service?”
The information was not different, but it was requested, and had to be formatted in, different ways, which created extra administrative and cost burdens.
You can therefore take it that the Faculty of Advocates would not say that it would be all right to have all of that done by primary legislation. It would not be, but we have an extra concern that ministers are seeking to take that upon themselves by a regulation-making power.
The decisions of the European courts are so important in making certain framework laws work, so even if the text of the legislation stays the same, the fact that the interpretations could—not necessarily would—change adds an extra layer of uncertainty. Uncertainty is therefore the big message that should be in capital letters.
Those include the expansion of the Scottish child payment, the doubling of the final bridging payment in December and the extra money for funding to tackle fuel insecurity.
For example, we have certainly seen an increase in the number of young people who wish to undertake their assessments in separate accommodation or to have extra time to undertake assessments.