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Given that eligibility now largely rests on entitlement to pension credit, what discussions have you had with the secretary of state about the UK Government running a campaign to ensure that all those folk who are entitled to pension credit get that benefit, and therefore get the winter fuel payment?
Diplomacy and soft diplomacy are not things that we necessarily want to broadcast and shout about; we just get on and do it. We concentrate on the activities that allow us to have successful relationships with different Governments.
Those would be important judgments to get right, and amendments 18 and 19 would appear to add layers of legal risk to the chief inspector’s inspection activities.
Question 3 was not lodged.Business Activity Business Activity To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to encourage business activity in Scotland.
Given the levels of pollution that we are now trying to get below, the quick wins have gone, because they related to industrial sources and large-scale activities.