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The response to a PQ in February 2021 set out the position:
It would not be feasible to deliver an automated Scottish Child Payment until full roll-out of Universal Credit, which is currently scheduled to be 2024 at the earliest. To deliver an automated payment earlier, we would have had to build interfaces with all the legacy benefits, which would be compl...
Mr McConnell confirmed that, after a period of nearly eight years, SPS were at the final stages of purchasing the land for a new site and that "we should have a new Barlinnie by the end of 2024, or perhaps 2025".6Justice Committee. (2019, October 8). col 20.
This spending pattern will change as Social Security Scotland takes on the delivery of carer and disability benefits between 2020 and 2024. The table belowiNotes and sources: All included in table 14.04 of the Scottish Government draft budgetScottish Government. (2018, December).
Universal credit has not yet been fully rolled out but under current plans, it will be fully rolled out by 2024. So, for the purposes of this analysis, it is assumed that all working age families eligible for support in 2023-24 are in receipt of UC, rather than the benefits it replaces.
According to the 2019-20 Budget, under the new definitions and based on current commitments and plans, repayments will fall to just over 3% of the budget in 2019-20 and remain at or around that level until 2024-25.1Scottish Government. (2018, December 12).
I can give him some reassurance, first, that my officials and I are working hard to ensure that we can directly award the contract for the west coast when it expires in 2024 and, secondly, that our approach does not preclude me from directly awarding a northern isles ferry services contract in the future.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
10 December 2020
For roe deer, non-lead alternatives will be required by 2024. In terms of deer shot by Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) staff or Deer Culling contractors, it is expected that lead ammunition will be phased out by the end of 2022.