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Informal engagement events
The Committee also held two informal engagement sessions with asylum seekers and refugees with different lived experiences:
At Maryhill Integration Centre, Glasgow (6 June 2023)
At the Scottish Parliament (13 June 2023)
Notes from these sessions are available on the Committee’s engagement section of the Asylum Seekers in Scotland...
How can we make sure that the systems work well across borders for someone who happens to live in Carlisle but who cares for a disabled person who lives in Scotland, for example?
If it is properly implemented, the policy can and will save lives. It will enable financial planning to leave a relationship in a way that simply is not possible at present.
I have reported strange vehicles at the end of the road on which I live, which is quite remote, and the response that I get from the 101 number is less than helpful.
It has something called non-verified live identification. When the police arrest somebody, they take fingerprints in a custody suite using what is basically a big photocopier that scans the fingerprints.
There are some on-going litigation cases against Glasgow City Council, which I cannot comment on because they are live. Similarly, there is a live criminal case that I cannot comment on either.
Those people do not have broad shoulders, and they are not rich—far from it. In a cost of living crisis, the SNP wants nurses, teachers and police officers to pay more to bail out a profligate and incompetent Government that has wasted their money.