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Interestingly, economic inactivity (which measures those who are neither working nor looking for work) has now returned to close to its pre-pandemic levels. However, the composition of the economically inactive population has changed.
Require new and old legislation to be read wherever possible in a way that is compatible with the UNCRC requirements; where this is not possible:
courts will be able to 'strike down' old incompatible legislation (being legislation which pre-dates the Bill), meaning that it no longer forms part of Scots law; or,
make a declaration that new legislation (bein...
They show that it is possible to embed post-legislative scrutiny into pre-existing mechanisms to ensure that it becomes part of the everyday activity of the Parliament.
Relationship of EfW with other waste management treatments - Mechanical Biological Treatment and anaerobic digestion
EfW facilities may useMechanical Biological Treatment (MBT), to pre-treat municipal solid waste prior to thermal treatment.
Section 10(2) of the Looked After Children (Scotland) Regulations 2009 defines a kinship carer as: “a person who is related to the child” or “a person who is known to the child and with whom the child has a pre-existing relationship”.
Children living in kinship care are not always formally ‘looked after’.
Carer's allowance supplement - £226.20 every six months to those who get carer's allowance.
Best start foods - pre-paid card credited with £17 every four weeks for certain foods for pregnant mothers and parents of young children.
This might be my final opportunity to speak in a Scottish Parliament debate, although I hope to speak in the members’ business debate on co-operatives later.It is arguable that the bill has had the longest period of pre-legislative scrutiny in history.
I have figures that compare the current situation that communities face with the situation pre-recession, specifically on the number of workers who have been out of work for six months or more.
Today and on previous occasions, we have broadly welcomed much of the bill, yet still the argument is rehearsed that we are obstructionist. It seems a little like a pre-rehearsed line that members are desperate to cling to and convince people of, despite the facts.