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The provisions on eligibility verification measures allow the DWP to require banks and financial institutions to provide large datasets to help verify a claimant’s entitlement to benefits and identify incorrect payments.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-06805 by Keith Brown on 3 March 2022, how many hours of purposeful activity prisoners had, on average, per week in (a) 2021, (b) 2022 and (c) 2023, broken down by prison.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
9 August 2023
The Scottish Government accepted the recommendations in the 2022 Planning for Skills Report and have taken action to improve our assurance and oversight of skills planning, including through the actions taken as part of the Shared Outcomes Framework (published in March 2022).
A post office in Possilpark in my constituency required to pay rates on its ATM, which is supplied by the Bank of Ireland. Such ATMs are the only ones that customers with a Post Office card account can use—they cannot use any others.
We undoubtedly have absolute agreement on the shame of food banks. Most members across the chamber will have visited their local food bank, and all of us will have said the same thing: that they provide a great service but that we wish that they did not exist.
S5W-07548 Claudia Beamish: To ask the Scottish Government on what date it received the feasibility study on carers allowance from the Department for Work and Pensions, and whether it will put this in the public domain.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
26 March 2024
My colleagues from Heriot-Watt will come to the committee at a later date, I believe, to talk more generally about other issues, so we wanted to focus on the access to justice theme.